Gandee Vasan

Gandee Vasan is a British artist born in Sri Lanka. He has an appreciation for images that convey powerful ideas and concepts and strives to create paintings that look obvious at first, but are more complex when looked at for a while. Work that makes an emotional connection and becomes thought provoking. He uses animal metaphors to add a universal resonance and create an emotive quality, with a touch of humour and whimsy. His preferred mediums are oils and charcoal, which he uses in a luscious and intuitive way to create work that is visually stunning and deeply meaningful.

His work was exhibited in the National Portrait Gallery in London, where he was a finalist in the BP Portrait Painting Awards and the Taylor Wessing Portrait Awards. At the age of 23, he was awarded by the Royal Society of Portrait Painters for creating the most outstanding work by a young artist. He has a body of work with Getty Images which is licensed around the world. His photographic images have graced the covers of TIME magazine, Le Monde, and other major publications.