Born in 1966 in Chandigarh, Tejinder Kanda completed his BFA from the Government College of Art in Chandigarh and taught art for a few years before taking to painting as a full time artist. His rhythmic expressions on canvas captivate the ambiance of life with all its trappings, with people busily engaged in their daily routine. His renditions, in small and big sizes, of India and hill towns feature the buzz of bazaars and street life, festivals and temples. His colorful palette in dense textures is an attempt to capture the social history of contemporary India. A look at Tejinder Kanda’s artscape brings one in an interface with myriad landscapes of transmuted imagery- colourful and misty with rain washed by-lanes, cloudy skyline, the distant horizon, semi rural semi urban ambience, villagers chatting interacting and busily engaged in their daily affairs, river banks and ghats, temples and word hipers, bell ringing and flags fluttering, lush green creepers winding their way up the windows, flowers in full bloom, the distant woods, mountains, hill tops and homes with their sloping roofs, people young and old, men and women- walking up and down the path, cyclists and rikshaws winding their way through puddles of water stirring the reflections of goings on. The grooves of the busy and buzzing work shift their locale and focus from one place or frame to another, as memories metamorphose into impressionist renderings.

The shadowy figures merge with the landscape, bringing them alive in a dynamic imagery. The paintings interspersed with tress, hills, water, people, tea stalls, roadside gatherings or more intimate encounters, festive celebrations and happenings, part real part imagined, move from past to the present as memories transform into colourful canvases.