Have you spotted him in Fort?

The lane next to Jehangir Art Gallery acts as an open-air gallery where several local artists hang their paintings on the rusty iron railings to entice a passerby or a tourist. One of them is 42-year-old Sanjay Warange, who works as an office boy at a firm in Vile Parle and moonlights as artist every Sunday

The lane next to Jehangir Art Gallery acts as an open-air gallery where several local artists hang their paintings on the rusty iron railings to entice a passerby or a tourist. One of them is 42-year-old Sanjay Warange, who works as an office boy at a firm in Vile Parle and moonlights as artist every Sunday.

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"Once I enquired at the gallery if I could host an exhibition but they said it would take about nine years to get a spot," says Warange, who discovered painting as a hobby during his school years but began selling his works (heâu00c2u0080u00c2u0088has sold 70 till now) only a year ago. From butterflies and flowers to landscapes and various faces of the Buddha, Warange has created many colourful artistic works that he calls 'living room paintings'.

"They are in bright colours and make for good wall hangings. I used to make abstract paintings too, but it became difficult to explain them to foreign tourists due to my poor English. So, I stopped. Also, I can't work on a huge canvas because it's difficult to mount it on the railing," says the Wadala-born self-taught artist, who often logs on to Google to learn about various colouring techniques or finds inspirations in the many artworks that hang on the walls of the haloed gallery.

While his first painting was sold for Rs 3,000, most of his works are priced between Rs 2,000 and Rs 3,000.

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