Bold, vivid strokes and bright colours are the trademarks of Shekhar’s works. He focuses on figurative artworks and has over the years developed a unique style of his own. His paintings have a strong shading with clear differentiation between light and shade. Strong Outlines and definite poses give his expressive figures a grounded beauty, standing out from a softer, fading background. 

Shekhar graduated with a Bachelor’s degree in Commerce from City College of Mirzapur, Calcutta University. Shekhar has participated in many exhibitions throughout India, and has been well recognised for his artwork.

Life is a river, starts from the hilly area, it flows down on plain, collecting the stones, soils and some dirt, making all to fertilizing others but burden for itself. Sometimes it gets fresh water from rain or by any other small stream, which makes the river strong and powerful.

His life is also the same; it started on 17th August 1973. It was not so smooth for him in his childhood days due to some political and socio economic reasons. In his school days he had that urge for energy which could make him more empowered, more spontaneous. After few days when some useless particles being already collected in his life and the 'Gati' (speed) was obstructed, he got someone who was just like a fresh stream to his blockade wave and enhanced its speed. He was his Guru (teacher) late. Prof. Gopal Sanyal. With all his guidance and blessings he did eight solo exhibitions and participated in various group shows and camps. He's very much influenced by the Indian mythological characters especially "˜Krishna and His surroundings'. He gets immense pleasure by depicting the different postures of that great character of "˜Mahabharata', because that particular character seems to him a perfect combination of love, passion and a thoughtful mind. Thus his journey is going on ....