Dhavat Singh Uikey likes to call himself a contemporary artist who deploy traditional skills in his style of paintings. An engineer by education and a Gond artist by profession, Uikey major influence has been folk tales that are narrated by Baiga tribe of Madhya Pradesh. Taking Gond Art to a higher level, the artist puts fauna life on his canvas with a life-like quality. The animated canvas seems to be a visual translation of a folktale. An experimenter, Uikey likes to play around the scale of his imagination and colour palette, which add an element of novelty in his paintings. Jayram Bhakta-Terracotta Art in India traces its history to very early periods. Various forms of terracotta are found in the excavations of Indus Valley Civilisation and India has been the cradle of terracotta art. In Orissa Jayram Bhakta was inclined to do this art on paper hence making it unique and wonderful to the eyes of the onlooker.
