Amit Ambalal - Artist Info

About Amit Ambalal

  • Biography

    "Painting for me is a process of discovering oneself...it becomes a metaphor of a larger thing."


    Born in 1943, Ahmedabad, Amit Ambalal was a businessman, until he became a full-time painter in 1979. So taken in was he by his passion of becoming a renowned painter - his childhood dream - that he sold off his family owned business in 1977 to pursue this passion. Amit was a 57 at the time.

    Says he, "My inspiration was my mother who learned art from Chhaganlal Jadav, the renowned painter of Gujarat. I remember spending my time working on paintings even in my school. In fact my aptitude for art was so appreciated that even when I d...

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