About
I Create…
My name is Soedeep Sardjoe Mishre and I’m a Visual Artist based in Amsterdam.
I’m an Artist by nature and a Solarpanel-systems engineer by vocation, the next progression would be incorporating ‘technology’ in it’s broadest sense into my work. Up till now Photoshop, a camera, an angular grinder and a tablesaw have been some of technology involved.
I grew up quiet and shy by nature, then weird and up-offbeat with the creative talent to proof it. Firstly getting involved with drawing and painting, adding photography and other media to the mix later on.
Except for a short lived stint at the HKU, I haven’t studied Art officially so I am largely selftaught.
My roots originate in Surinam, where I was born and raised in a lineage of Hindu priest originating from the Bihar provence in India.
‘Sudeep Surdju Mishra‘, weird yet similar sounding, that’s my ancestral name in it’s original Hindi spelling. I’ll spare you the boring Colonialism angle.
It all began in primary school of which I have clear memories of my classmates ogling over my crude drawings of comicbook Superheroes, convinced that I had a lot of practice drawing those. I did not, although…
Back then I didn’t really have a big urge to draw, I was more into reading voraciously while imagining myself doing all the cool daring things I read. The doing came much later on.
For me escape into alternate realities was my way of dealing with the anxiety of a unstable childhood.
Some time later in secondary school my drawings really caught the attention of my teachers and were put on permanent display in the school library.
Looking back, those earliest crude drawings were quite imaginative and abstract, while I had no conception of Art history and unfamiliar with the concept of an Artist as someone who lives and breathes creative expression.
Fast forward to now, the Golden Era of Dutch painting and their countless subsidiaries still remains the main source and inspiration of my artistic expression. Attention to light, compostion and hidden meaning through personal symbols.
My artistic process is akin to that of researcher rather than a classical painter, as I ‘construct’ meaning through a patchwork of disparate images, bringing them together to create a story within one frame. This involves more time than the drawing and painting part.
While I also paint and draw from life in the traditional way, this is mostly used to hone my drawing and observational skills.
Thus far displayed on this website is about less than half of my creative output, so stay tuned.
Namaste
Values: Kindness, compassion, expression, authenticity