Akbar Padamsee (April 12, 1928 – January 6, 2020) was a revered Indian artist and painter, heralded as a pioneer of modern Indian painting alongside S. H. Raza, F. N. Souza, and M. F. Husain. His creative ingenuity led him to experiment with a wide array of media, including oil on canvas, photography, and digital printmaking. Renowned for his Grey Series, Metascapes, and Mirror Images, Padamsee also explored the realms of filmmaking, sculpture, and art criticism.

Padamsee’s interest in structure and form takes shape from ethereal landscapes. His mastery over space, colour and composition uneils relams of meditative depth, etching a enduring legacy onto the landscapes of contemporary Indian Art. His landscapes were influenced by the Sanskrit texts such as the Abhijnanashakuntalam.

His Mirror Images explore the duality of existence, while his portraits and heads focus on the construction of form rather than the specifics of portraiture. Notably, the only time he created identifiable portraits was in 1997 with his “Gandhi” series, featuring works on paper in watercolor and charcoal.