Satire on Canvas
by Nissim Ezekiel Gieve Patel’s painting are currently on show at the Pundole Art Gallery, Bombay (1972)
Gieve Patel’s latest paintings are broad based comments on some aspects of the Indian social scene. Its familiar external forms, so obvious that they emerge fully in newspaper photographs, are given a
read more Gieve Patel: Looking into a well… beyond metaphor
by Sudhir Patwardhan These images, and other images like them, of what one may see looking down into a well, are from an ongoing series of large paintings that Gieve Patel has been working on for the past twelve years. Each painting shows a view of a well seen from above. The mud and stone walls of a well form the perimeter
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