Vinod Shah was born in 1934 in Rajkot, Gujarat and graduated from the Faculty of Fine Arts at the M S University, Baroda, with a Master’s degree in Painting. Frequently working with watercolours on paper, Shah also includes elements of collage in his work. Both his figurative paintings as well as his landscapes have a mysterious sense of being incomplete, with pencil lines seen in between gaps of paint. Shah was honored with the ‘Veteran Artist Award’ from the All India Fine Arts and Crafts Society, New Delhi, and the ‘Gaurav Puraskar’ from the Lalit Kala Akademi, Gujarat. His work has been included in the Paris Biennale, the LSE Society Third World Art Exhibition, London, and the 6th Triennale, New Delhi. He stays and works at Vadodara.