“I was always good at art since I was a child,” the retired marine engineer says. “For 40 years, I’ve been an engineer, but whenever I got the time, I’d turn to my passion, art.” One of the first artworks he painted was a watercolour version of Antoine Watteau’s oil La Gamme D’amour (The love song), a scene depicting two lovers.

Sal D’sa and wife Serena host annual art soirees at their Bandra residence. Pics/Aishwarya Deodhar

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Most of the artworks are oil paintings, the bold brushstrokes rendered in vivid detail, reproducing the work of the great masters—Rembrandt, Boucher, and Watteau. Biblical scenes, scriptural themes, and Greek mythology serve as inspiration for the artist, who loves to study the details and understand the story behind the painting before creating his own rendition. When we ask why he chooses to re-paint popular paintings, he says, “The Great Masters which we see in the Museums all over the world cannot be owned by the common man. My desire was to make these affordable to art lovers.” D’sa’s detailed strokes also capture dancers in the moment they’re twirling, or a musician immersed in twining strings of her violin—the theme of this year’s soiree. “As I am a lover of musicians and dancers fascinate me and it turned out over the years that these kind of paintings became very popular at my exhibitions,” he says.

WHAT: Musicians and Dancers, an exhibition of paintings 
WHEN: October 29, 9.30 AM to 8 PM
WHERE: 305, Lou Paul Building, B Wing, St. John Baptist road, (Bandra West)
CONTACT: 9819981870