About Shekhar Sane
"Artist Shekhar Sane", is a very popular and distinguished name among the followers of Shree Sai Baba and Shree Swami Samartha Maharaj. He has painted more than 4500 portraits of them in particular, along with several other saints and spiritual personalities.
We can say that Shekhar is the chosen one by Shree Sai Baba as his birth place is Shirdi. He is a great devotee of Baba and is blessed by him, since childhood. Shekhar holds a degree of Commercial Art from Abhinav Kala Mahavidyalaya, Pune. He has been exploring and experimenting his talent through various forms of painting such as sketching, portraits and painting landscapes with watercolours. He was and is till date an ardent follower of Shree Sai Baba, and he was drawn towards Shree Swami Samartha Maharaj as well, rather called for his divine intervention. His devotion towards them, and their grace upon him, gradually led painting spiritual personalities to be the work of his life.
Apart from his educational background and spiritual devotion, he has strived to enhance his knowledge and gained wisdom by studying the great literatures of Vedas, Upanishadas and Puranas. This is why one will find his paintings to be the applications of deep knowledge and to be conceptually correct.
He has captured different moods and forms of the deities. Today his paintings are displayed in most of the temples and houses of the devotees. They have been exhibited through various exhibitions, in places like Mumbai and Pune. As expressed by the spectators, standing before his creations and looking at them sends a wave of shiver down the spine. One remains dazzled by the radiance and is enveloped with divine contentment, love and warmth. The eyes are painted to be so lively and realistic, that one will not doubt the actual presence of God in the painted figure. This explains why eyes in the painting are what Shekhar's paintings are mainly famous for.
This form of art perhaps requires the artist to be a surrendered devotee as well. Unlike other forms of painting, this form requires the artist to work with a heart filled with devotion, apart from display of skills by the brain. Along with these characteristics, an exuberant passion and vivid imagination have led Shekhar to achieve this success, to create paintings with expressions stupendous in magnitude and sublime in content. He truly gives a 'Form to the Formless'. All this as he says, is due to Maharaj's grace and blessings showered upon him. His spiritual evolution towards divinity takes place with the evolution of his art.
In 2018, 100 years will be completed to Shree Sai Baba's samadhi. It is the occasion on which Shekhar looks forward to some special creations. It would be a delight to see what Shree Sai Baba will guide Shekhar to create, this time.
