The most striking aspect of Deepak Shinde’s work is the spontaneous usage of color. 

Deepak Shinde’s paintings are a celebration of color; a celebration of the spirit within. His work often draws from his personal experiences. It emerges as a visual response to what he feels deep inside. Changing circumstances get reflected in his creations.

Commenting on the broad philosophy of his practice, he mentions there are three aspects to art - the intellectual, the aesthetic and the emotional. His instincts, experiences and thoughts act as evolutionary elements that drive his art.

Born in 1946 in Maharashtra, the artist did his G.D. in Fine Art from the J.J. School of Art in 1972. He has been a winner of the Senior Art Fellowship Award by the Government of India’s Department of Culture, and has a number of significant shows to his credit both in India and internationally.

His bird and animal figures - monkeys, tigers, elephants, deer, chameleons, parrots, bulls, etc. - with their mystical movements and gestures indicate a mythic representation of life processes in their abstraction. He looks to decipher different situations and relationships that express an understanding of ordinary people, their foibles, as well as their perceived lack of self-awareness.

The artist views it all not with sarcasm, but brings to his work a pithy wit. He is subtle, and not scathing, in his visual commentary, even while he is dealing with rampaging egoists, or self-appointed custodians of morality through his work.

In Deepak Shinde’s paintings, the protagonists are chiefly driven by their passions; they become the playthings at the hands of destiny rather than the masters of their own desires. He acts like as a curious narrator, a vulnerable elegist and also as an eternal optimist; he is both participant and observer during the act of painting.

Fascinated by the complexity of human relationships, he carefully analyzes the attempts individuals make to share space and time that meet with varying degrees of success or failure: they may culminate in the fulfillment or disappointment.