To understand Bhupen, is to understand solitude. Step into his watercolours and an ordinary world reveals itself, quite extraordinarily. Form, space, colour, light, everyday images take on a rhythm of their own. The man sitting by the wayside, invisible, blending with the hum of activity around him, is actually palpable.

He has sat there, for a thousand years on that busy street, hunched, carrying the weight of his aloneness. He is you and I and Bhupen. And this is why Bhupen's work, often compared with Pierre Bonnard's Intimisme transcends all parameters, touching the lives of so many around the world.