Jayasri Burman

  Jayasri Burman was born in an aesthetically inclined Bengali Family in 1960. Her uncle Sakti Burman is a renowned Bengali painter and so is her cousin, Maya Burman. She studied art at the Kala Bhavan in Shantiniketan, and then pursued a degree from Visual College of Art, Kolkata. At the insistence of her uncle she went to Paris and studied print-making under Monsieur Ceizerzi.When she came back to Calcutta she found herself being categorised though patronisingly, under the exclusive community of “Women Painters”. Jayasri Burman learnt an important lesson very early in life- unless she does anything about it , in the male dominated world of Indian Painting,she will always be a “woman painter” or a “paintress”. She decided to let her work speak for her. And so it did, more eloquantly than any spoken word could ever have.