Children
Children's drawing (6-9)
Crayon, pencil and poster colour — confidence first, likeness later. Folders go home each term.
from ₹600
Art school · Kolkata
Ten easels by the window. Come draw.
Drawing and painting classes for children and adults in a two-room para studio — taught by working artists, graded by nobody, with an annual exhibition where every single student hangs.
Serving Jodhpur Park · Jadavpur · Ballygunge · Lake Gardens
10students to a batch — one teacher, ten easels, actual attention
Everyone hangsthe annual exhibition shows every student's work, not a selected few
No gradeschildren's art is not marked here — progress folders, not report cards
Trialfirst class at ₹100, materials provided, no push after
What we do
Services & fees
Monthly fees at stated batch sizes, two classes a week unless marked. Class materials for children's batches are included; adult batches bring their own colours (list provided, buy anywhere — the school sells only the optional starter box, at cost). Entrance-exam fees for design colleges are paid by the candidate to the exam body directly.
Children
Children's drawing (10-14)
Watercolour, perspective and observation drawing — the sketchbook habit begins here.
from ₹700
Children
Clay modelling Saturdays
Hands in clay for an hour and a half — figures, diyas and whatever the monsoon suggests.
from ₹800
Adults
Watercolour for adults
Washes, wet-on-wet and Kolkata's own subjects — many students are absolute beginners past fifty.
from ₹1,100
Adults
Oil & acrylic
Canvas work from still life to your own subjects, with honest critique when you ask for it.
from ₹1,400
Adults
Pastel & sketching
Charcoal, soft pastel and the discipline of daily pages.
from ₹900
Adults
Life-study Sundays
Clothed model sessions for practised students — timed poses, no instruction, serious room.
from ₹300
Entrance & portfolio
Design-entrance portfolio batch
Observation drawing, composition and portfolio building for design and fine-arts entrances. The exams are the colleges' own; we teach drawing, they select.
from ₹3,500
Entrance & portfolio
Entrance mock tests
Timed situation-drawing and design-aptitude practice on past patterns, reviewed sheet by sheet.
from ₹500
Workshops & short
Alpona & folk-motif course
Bengal's floor-art tradition taught as living practice — rice-paste alpona, pujo motifs and their meanings.
from ₹1,200
Workshops & short
Printmaking weekend
Lino cutting and hand-pulled prints — everyone leaves with an edition of five.
from ₹1,500
Workshops & short
Materials starter box
The adult-batch list in one box at cost price — or take the list to College Street and haggle, we approve.
from ₹950
Add what you need to your list and send it across — we reply with a firm quote and a slot. Nothing is charged from this page.
Who does the work
The people you will actually see
You are told who is on your file before you arrive, not after.
Sohini Bagchi
Founder & principal teacher
A working watercolourist — the adult batches and the everyone-hangs exhibition rule are hers
Debopam Naskar
Children's batches & clay
Runs the under-14 rooms and the Saturday clay table
Ipsita Mondal
Entrance batch & life study
Owns the portfolio batch, the mock tests and the Sunday sessions
Proof
The studio, plainly
Two rooms, north light, work on every wall. That is the school.
When
Opening hours
- Tue - Sun10:00 - 19:30 (children's batches 16:00 - 18:00)
- MondayClosed
Area served: Jodhpur Park · Jadavpur · Ballygunge · Lake Gardens
Before you ask
Questions we get
My child shows talent. Should we aim for competitions?
If the child enjoys them, some are fine. But we will not build a childhood around certificates, and we do not enter students into competitions to decorate our own wall. The progress folder — this January against last January — tells you more than any medal, and it cannot be bought.
Can you get my daughter into NID or NIFT?
Nobody can 'get' anyone in, and an art school that claims selections is claiming the jury's chair. What the portfolio batch does: three classes a week of observation drawing, composition and timed practice on past exam patterns, and a portfolio that is genuinely hers. The entrance belongs to the exam body; the drawing belongs to her.
I am 54 and have never drawn. Is it too late?
You would be our median adult student, roughly. The watercolour batch is half beginners past fifty — retirement, it turns out, is when Kolkata finally sits down to paint. Come for the ₹100 trial class; the easel by the window does not check ages.
Contact
Tell us who is coming to draw
Age, any past practice, and which batch caught your eye. We reply with a trial-class slot within two working days.