Ashok Kumar Varma
Kolkata, West Bengal - India
Email: avarma_tes@rediffmail.com

Ashok Kumar Varma is a self taught artist who's
fascination toward art stems from his childhood
days. A visit to an art gallery exhibition
overwhelmed and inspired him to the infinite
possiblities of creativity and kindred his own
talents to create something new. From 1986 to
1996 he began building paper collages in spare time away from engineering projects. From 1997 onward he developed his own technique in his medium. Ashok's collages are very different from the conventional paper collages and have the completeness of a full-blown oil or a mix media painting though not a drop of paint, ink or any other pigment used anywhere in it. Everything he creates is with bits of paper only, sometimes as small as 2 mm in size. He has held 3 solo exhibitions (2000, 2003 and 2008) and has participated in many group exhibitions and shows organized by major galleries in India.