Heart beatsART.
Original paintings by Manamita Datta — a mixture of semi-realism and contemporary art, created with oil and acrylic.
Prints
Shop art prints.
Most of the originals can also be had as a print — giclée on archival cotton paper, signed by Manamita, in whatever size suits your wall. Tell her which painting you want and how big, and she will come back with sizes, paper and price.
- 01 Pick the painting from Artworks.
- 02 Say how large you want it.
- 03 She quotes paper, size and price.
- 04 Signed, packed flat and posted.
3 bodies of work
Ways of looking
painted from life and memory
Original Works
Paintings in oil and acrylic — storms, deities, myth, night skies and quiet light.
drawn out of love
Fanart Collection
Watercolour and mixed-media fanart of characters worth sitting with.
painted to order
Commissioned Works
Portraits, pets, album covers and gifts — painted from someone else’s photograph and story.
About
Manamita Datta
Rooted in realism, always evolving — colour, texture and the quiet business of paying attention.
I’m a self-taught artist, zoology postgraduate and lifelong science enthusiast based in Kolkata, India. My work sits at the intersection of observation and imagination, and moves between semi-abstract form, texture and experimentation.
I work primarily in oil and acrylic, with occasional forays into watercolour, across realistic and semi-realistic works, moody landscapes, outer space scenes, and increasingly art about human nature, psychology and emotion.
- Based in
- Kolkata, India
- Media
- Oil, acrylic, watercolour
- Ships
- Worldwide
Commissions
Have something in mind? Tell me about it.
No rate cards and no forms to survive. Describe the painting in a few sentences, add a size, a medium and a rough deadline, and Manamita will write back personally to talk through everything else.
- 01 Tell her the idea, the room, the feeling.
- 02 She replies with size, medium, timeline and price.
- 03 Progress photos while it is painted.
- 04 Packed by hand and shipped to your door.
Where the paintings live now
More collector stories“The painting came out absolutely beautiful. I love the colors and the brush strokes and all the attention to detail. It is way better than what I had in mind. And my partner loved it a lot. Thank you so so much. You are truly talented <3”
“Thank you so so so much for helping me out with this. I don’t even know how to explain to you how special this is to me. I started crying so hard when I was opening this. It’s so beautiful and everything I’d imagined. I’m really really glad I approached you with this. You’re seriously very very talented it quite literally moved me to tears. And thank you so much for the lovely note, it made me want to just give you a big hug. Thank you so so much again.”
“Honestly obsessed with how this turned out — you did such an amazing job and captured us so beautifully. It looks even better than I imagined and I’m so, so happy with it!! Thank youuuu :)”
Newsletter
Letters from the studio
A quiet note whenever a new original, collection or studio story is added. Nothing else, no more than once a month.