Shastri maharaj biography of albert

Inward Journey at National Museum, Trinidad and Tobago, West Indies

The National Museum in Port of Spain has produced a retrospective of the works of the artist Shastri Maharaj who has been practicing since the early 1970’s.

Mr.Maharaj is arguably one of the few Indo-Trinbagonians working locally today in Trinidad and Tobago to that acclaimed. His art runs the gamut from Post Expressionism to Abstraction. I first came across Mr. Maharajs’ work in the mid 1980’s.

I was very excited about his technical skill and moreso by his compositional creativity.

Organized and methodical, he was imperturbably patient when dealing with difficult people, and showed tenacious grit in the face of adversity.

At the time he was discussing things that were very current in his own life, things that were both intimate to him and humorous. I recall one piece where he painted a house with a veranda, and on the veranda was a frigerator.The house was his grandmothers’ and he had some funny antidotes about it.

I recalled that I found his energy infectious and I thought that this artist is the locale quivalent of the luminaries that were being toute