“The new sights of Nature and its colorful smile made me rejoice like a child.”

Vinod Shah graduated from the Faculty of Fine Arts at MSU, Baroda, with a Master’s degree in Painting. Soon after, he joined the same institution as a lecturer, eventually being appointed Head of the Department of Painting.

Shah’s work is simple to look at, and has a lyrical, childlike appeal to it. Frequently working with watercolors on paper, Shah also includes elements of collage in his work. Both his figurative paintings as well as his landscapes have a mysterious sense of being incomplete, with pencil lines seen in between gaps of paint. His colorful palette sets much deeper meaning in the paintings he creates.

He participated in the Paris Biennale 1969, Sixth Triennale, India 1986. He received the National Award in 1968, Won various Gujarat Lalit Kala prizes in 1965,75,79 and 86, and Gaurav Puraskar in 1997.

He passed away in 2020 in Vadodara.