Human nature (i) Painting

Jignesh Jariwala was born in Surat in 1976. He found his artistic instincts while young and gained academic art training by doing a Bachelor of Fine Arts from B.A. Mehta Kalamahavidhyalaya in Amalsad. His artworks mainly include paintings, but he has also created some sculptures and reliefs. He has exhibited his works various times in Surat including a group show at the Surat Rotary Art Gallery in 1998, and also at the Kala Utsav fair held by Gujarat Kala Pratishthan in 2010. He also did exhibitions at popular galleries in Mumbai including a group exhibition at Jehangir Art Gallery in 2014 and another at Nehru Center in 2009. From 2012-2017, and also in 2023, he was invited each year to be a part of the Jury panel of the South Gujarat Inter-College Painting Competition at J.Z. Shah Arts & H.P. Desai Commerce College in Surat. He has also been a visiting examiner for a photography viva in 2024 at Auro University in Surat. Jignesh is a member of the Art Society of India, and Gujarat Kala Pratisthan. He currently resides in Surat where his studio is located and continues to work on his painting series Ramayana on which he started working in 2020. So far he has created 22 paintings and is working on the last few works of the series.