Lalu Prasad Shaw:

Lalu Prasad Shaw was born in 1937, Bengal and received a diploma in painting from the Government College of Arts and Crafts, Kolkata in 1959. Shaw’s works mainly in gouache or tempera. Influenced by the pre-Independence Company School of art, the traditional Kalighat Pat and the Ajanta cave paintings, Shaw’s works mainly executed in gouache or tempera like his own person are simple and graceful having a very still, well-composed and smooth exterior. The artist now lives and works in Kolkata.