(Excerpts from Articles)

ROBERT AMOS for THE TIMES COLONIST,        Oct, 2003

‘Sen’s ceramic sculptures are small figures modeled with an incisive flair and a profound understanding of human form. Though small enough to cradle in your arms, they seem inherently monumental.

With the directness of an experienced draftsman, Sen eyes the model and then marks a position on it. She cuts into the clay to establish where the form and space meet. Whether painting, drawing or sculpting, Sen is making marks. She strips away the nonessential. Out of the mass, a rhythm appears and an image is born. Her style, broad strokes and confident gesture is appealing and eloquent.

 INGRID PAULSEN for THE VIC NEWS, WEEKEND EDITION,     Oct, 2003

‘None of the sculptures are larger than 40 centimeters tall, yet  their various poses are reminiscent of monument, as though cut out of boulders and meant to be set in a town square.’

BARSHA NAG BHOWMICK,       Jan, 2003

‘In Sen’s paintings it seems…one artist consciously, by means of certain external signs, hands on to others, feelings …in a manner that others are affected by these feelings and also experience them.’

KESHAV MALIK for THE TIMES OF INDIA,     May, 1989

‘...the evocative moment in this genre comes where pattern and design leave the theme of the nude well behind …the charcoal studies in all their obscurity arrive at the same sensuousness  via another route. These works are a better judge of any artists’ draftsmanship for here you have to go for it without the seductions of colour.’

SANTO DUTTA for the INDIAN EXPRESS,       May, 1989

‘Her drawings in charcoal have a sure handed, staccato linear movement that stresses the essential structure of forms, almost carving them out in thick dark lines which in their turn, mark out tonal areas… a ’tone poem’ where dark and defining lines throw up the colour planes in patterns of contrasts….her paintings and pastels seem to ‘crackle’ with colours…’

THE STATESMAN,              May, 1989

‘Kobita Sen’s oils pastels and charcoals are notable for her imaginative brushwork which make the subject almost a subsidiary arrival while giving prominence to the management of colour; secondly but equally impressive is her understanding of structure which enables her to handle the form of the figure in subtle moves.’

FINANCIAL EXPRESS,             May, 1989

Kobita  demonstrates the ability to affect the sense, which endows her images with an overwhelming human quality. She has an energy, a rhythmical character in the drawing and a pervasive tone or atmosphere in the colour and shades….she impresses with her mastery of various media, grip over form and line, and the conceptual image.

P.N. MAGO for the PATRIOT           May, 1989

The colour she uses is neither naturalistic nor symbolic. It is derived from the function which the colour has in the existence of the object depicted. Its is modified for the sake of harmony or relationship in contrast. The half dozen charcoals on display are executed with great facility and a feeling for structural form.

ISANA MURTI FOR THE SUNDAY OBSERVER     Apr, 1989

‘The exhibition is strongly reminiscent of post impressionist art, with overtones of  Giacometti-

Tremendous rigour here in Sen's handling of each medium and the charcoals stand out for their sensitivity and tonal achievement.’

TELEVISION COVERAGE AND  INTERVIEWS

‘GO T.V.         ‘Centered on clay’ interview with Nancy Sinclair, 2001

CFAX 1070     ‘The Nude Renewed’ interview with David Lennam 2002

The New V.I.   Opening of ‘The Nude Renewed’ covered by Adam      2002

Channel 6         Victoria artist profile interviewed by Jenny Manichek 2002

GO T.V.          ‘Xchanges 35^th Anniversary’ covered by Jenny Manichek 2002

CFAX 1070     “monochrome people in a coloured land’ interview with David Lennam, 2003

CFAX 1070     ‘About face’ interview with David Lennam 2005