“Presenting Amal Ghosh: Bridge.” 

In February the Broadway Gallery will present an exhibition of paintings by the late artist and educator Amal Ghosh (1933 – 2022).

Amal Ghosh was born in Calcutta, India, in 1933 and attended the Government College of Arts and Crafts, before moving to Britain to attend the Central School of Arts and Crafts where he specialised in mural painting. Later Amal went on to study at the Hertfordshire College of Art, St Albans.

His work is held in major public collections including the Victoria & Albert Museum and Art Council England – and has been widely exhibited both nationally and internationally including Bluecoat Gallery, Liverpool, the Barbican, London, and the Birmingham Museum and Art Gallery.

Amal’s early art education was modeled in the philosophy and practice of the Western art schools and had little to do with his cultural heritage. While studying at the Central School, Amal was encouraged to draw on the visual traditions of his Indian heritage, through the encouragement of his tutors, artists Cecil Collins and Alan Davie. Both Collins and Davie were noted for their paintings that drew on non-Western art, philosophy, and spirituality. Collins and Davie were able to reaffirm and value Amal’s Indian heritage in a way that had not been possible before.