{"id":889,"date":"2026-08-22T14:16:23","date_gmt":"2026-08-22T14:16:23","guid":{"rendered":"https:\/\/sanshine.sanshineart.com\/?page_id=889"},"modified":"2026-08-31T09:47:01","modified_gmt":"2026-08-31T09:47:01","slug":"sandeep-rajoriya","status":"publish","type":"page","link":"https:\/\/sanshine.sanshineart.com\/?page_id=889","title":{"rendered":"SANDEEP RAJORIYA"},"content":{"rendered":"\t\t
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SANDEEP RAJORIYA\n
Calligrapher & Artist \nBroad-edge nib Calligraphy in Blackletter, Gothic & Devanagari
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Artist Bio : <\/p>\n

Sandeep Rajoriya is an Indian calligrapher and artist with over 15 years of experience in calligraphy, fine art, and lettering. He is known for merging broad-edge nib calligraphy \u2014 spanning Blackletter, Gothic, and Devanagari scripts \u2014 with painting, creating works that carry the verses of the Bhagavad Gita into visual, meditative form.<\/p>\n

He has served as faculty at the Lal Bahadur Shastri National Academy of Administration (LBSNAA), where he mentored the 98th Foundation Course batch of Indian Civil Servants in calligraphy, and has presented his work to dignitaries including the President of India, Smt. Draupadi Murmu. Through his studio, Sanshine Art, he works to carry Indian spiritual and cultural heritage into contemporary calligraphic art.<\/p>\n

Artist Statement : <\/p>\n

My work sits at the intersection of script and spirit. Using the broad-edge nib \u2014 the same tool behind centuries of Blackletter and Gothic manuscript tradition \u2014 I render words and shlokas from the Bhagavad Gita in Devanagari, layered with painting and colour. Each piece is built to be more than decorative: it is meant to slow the viewer down, the way a hand-copied verse once slowed the scribe who wrote it. <\/p>\n

My paintings return again and again to a single question: what remains when the body is gone? They sit with death, the mortality of body and mind, and the immortality of the soul beneath it \u2014 the invisible realms the eye cannot see but the Gita insists are real. Solitude,
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I do not intend these works to be looked at <\/span>and moved past. My objective, as the Gita frames it, is self-realization \u2014 and <\/span>I want each painting to hold up a mirror to that pursuit, however briefly, for <\/span>whoever stands in front of it. If a piece succeeds, the viewer does not simply <\/span>admire it; they are pulled into a quiet, private reckoning with their own <\/span>existence \u2014 what is temporary in them, and what is not. That moment of <\/span>introspection, however small, is the real work.<\/span><\/p>\n

I see calligraphy as a discipline shared across cultures \u2014 the same reverence for the letterform that shaped European manuscripts also shapes the Devanagari tradition \u2014 and my practice tries to hold both in the same frame. My hope is that each work becomes a small daily encounter with the text: not just read, but felt.<\/p>\n

Highlights <\/h2>\n

\u25cf <\/span>Faculty, Lal Bahadur Shastri National Academy of Administration (LBSNAA) \u2014 mentored the 98th Foundation Course of Indian Civil Servants in calligraphy<\/span><\/o:p><\/p>\n

\u25cf <\/font>Presented calligraphy artworks to the Hon'ble President of India, Smt. Draupadi Murmu, and other dignitaries<\/span><\/o:p><\/p>\n

\u25cf <\/font>Calligraphy paintings gifted to the Office of the Additional DGFT, Ludhiana (Government of india)<\/span><\/o:p><\/p>\n

\u25cf <\/font>Solo Exhibition: Tansen Kalavithika, Gwalior (1\u20133 Oct 2025)<\/span><\/o:p><\/p>\n

\u25cf <\/font>10+ group and institutional exhibitions across Delhi, Mumbai, and Himachal Pradesh (2025\u20132026)<\/span><\/o:p><\/p>\n\n\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t\n<\/div>\n\t\t<\/div>\n\t\t","protected":false},"excerpt":{"rendered":"

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