Shyamal Mukherjee was born in Bengal in 1961, did his Bachelors of Fine Arts from Santiniketan 1989 and Masters of Fine Arts from Rabindra Bharati University, spent his whole life in Kolkata, has upheld his Bengali culture through his paintings and given his contemporary interpretation of the Bengal School of Art. The paintings are a reflection of his various interactions with people during his travel in and around Bengal. His preferred medium of painting is reverse painting in oil or acrylic on acrylic sheet.

The subjects of his depiction are figures brightly dressed in colourful hues of bright red, gold, blue, orange, and green are mostly rounded and full bodied with a piercing look in their eyes transfixing its observer to the inherent stories that the paintings are intended to convey.  Most of the people Shyamal Mukherjee paints are performers of some type, putting on an act for everyone else – something all of us do everyday of our lives.

His only motive is to spread joy and happiness through his paintings around the world.