Nabibakhsh Mansoori (Indian, B.1966) Everything your Heart DesiresNabibakhsh Mansoori (Indian, B.1966)Everything your Heart Desires signed in Devanagiri and dated 'Nabibakhsh Mansoori 27 XII 2019' and dated, medium, size and year versooil on canvas71 x 106.8cm (27 15/16 x 42 1/16in).ProvenanceArcher Graphic Studio, Ahmedabad.Born in Idar, Gujarat, Mansoori obtained his Diploma in Fine Arts (Drawing & Painting) from the Sheth C.N College of Fine Arts, Ahemdabad. He subsequently obtained his Post Diploma in Fine Arts (Creative Painting) from Maharaja Sayajirao University, Baroda. His works are exuberant and feature layered and skewed imagery. He employs multiple view points in his works, as if one is looking at them through a prism, convex or concave lens which entices the viewer to look at it repeatedly from different perspectives; he came across this multiplicity of viewpoints in his childhood when his father gave him a prism, convex and concave lens and he viewed the rivers and rivulets in his village through these mediums and married them with the colours he could see.He uses both oils and acrylics as his medium and the dramatic use of light coupled with the unconventional perspective and the use of crisp bold colours are his trademark. His works have been exhibited in bot group and solo exhibitions in London, Mumbai, New Delhi, Hyderabad, Chandigarh and Ahmedabad, and he has been the recipient of various awards including the 1998 Gujarat State Lalit Kala Akademi Award for Painting.