Tushar grew up in the Indian suburbs surrounded by lush green farms and vineyards. He was taught the basics of art under his guru and art professor, Girish Sahadeo, but also gained a lot of his knowledge through independent study and practice. His artistic talent became evident in the very early years of his life. Annual summer vacations at his grandparent’s countryside home were very inspiring to the young artist who spent most of his time drawing and sketching the scenery, always managing to capture the rustic allure of the Indian countryside.

At the age of just 12 years old, Tushar won first prize and a National Award in a Drawing Competition amongst 1 million students who participated that year across the whole of India.

A year before that at the age of 11, he was amongst the top 2 winners in a similar national level painting competition and has continued to win many state, national and international awards for his paintings.

His passion in the field of art led him to choose Architecture at university. After completing his Bachelor’s degree, he decided to further explore art in the field of Design and thereafter undertook a Master’s Degree course wherein he studied Product Design, from one of the leading institutes in India, The Indian Institute of Technology, New Delhi.

Tushar embarked on his professional career as a Creative Designer, designing watches for multinational brands like Timex as also other such companies. His move to London in 2006 saw him working for a design patent company that helped aspiring designers to conceptualise their ideas into working products. His experience also includes designing pieces for Hollywood movies while as a designer for a high-end jewellery brand.

Even with his professional success as a designer, there was something Tushar had ignored which was his innate need to paint. After few years of sabbatical, he rekindled his love affair and went back to his canvases and paintbrushes and has not looked back since.

After being a weekend painter for years Tushar now paints full time.

Tushar has been a guest on a couple of podcasts where he was invited to share his artistic journey experiences and his plein air working practice.

These are available on all podcast channels like Youtube, Spotify and Apple podcast. Below are the YouTube and Spotify links to listen and watch them.

Painting Insights Podcast:

YOUTUBE:

https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=KGHJ_6-_8Vg

SPOTIFY:

Artful:Minds Podcast:

Tushar Sabale is represented by some of the very well known galleries in the country like the Adrian Hill Fine Art gallery, in Holt and Stamford, Signet Contemporary Art Gallery, Chelsea, The Point Contemporary Gallery in Cromer, Norfolk and The Russell gallery in Putney where he exhibits regularly.

You can browse some of his works from Adrian Hill Fine Art Gallery here:

https://www.adrianhillfineart.com/product-category/artists/tushar-sabale/

You can browse some of his works from Signet Contemporary Art Gallery here:

https://signetcontemporaryart.com/artists/tushar-sabale/

You can browse some of his works from Point Contemporary Art Gallery here:

https://thepointcontemporary.com/collections/tushar-sabale

Tushar Sabale is an award winning Indian born, British artist based in London.

He was recently awarded ‘The Rosemary Brushes Award’ at the Royal Institute of Oil painters (ROI) 2024 annual show.

Tushar mainly paints from life and plein air (French term for outdoors) in oil colours but occasionally enjoys painting objects and has transitioned from painting portraits to landscapes in recent years.

He places his work between Impressionism and Realism with some Luminist touches.

• Broadway Arts Festival: Tushar Sabale is an official Ambassador to the biennially celebrated ‘Broadway Arts festival’ (BAF).  The beautiful Broadway village, in Cotswold, has a unique artistic heritage and an enduring relationship with a world-famous colony of American artists and writers, who visited and worked in this village in the late 19th century. John Singer Sargent started his iconic painting, ‘Carnation, Lily, Lily, Rose’ in Broadway when he resided here as a part of the colony. The aim of the festival is to create a sustainable environment to inspire, educate, encourage and support Broadway as an internationally recognised centre for the arts.

• The Wapping Group of Artists: Tushar is an elected member of the esteemed ‘The Wapping Group of Artists’, established in 1946 with only 25 full members at any given time. The group meets from April to September at selected locations along the River Thames to paint the changing views of London through the years.

• Chelsea Art Society : Tushar is an elected member of the prestigious ‘The Chelsea Art Society’. Its one of the oldest Art societies, founded in 1910, that has survived two world wars and is still going strong.

• The British Plein Air Painters: Tushar is also a member of ‘The British Plein Air Painters’ since 2023, a group of professional artists based in the UK that share a passion for painting outdoors, in front of the subject, and capturing the essence of their surroundings with freshness and energy. The limit of the artists has been set to under 30.

• London Plein Air Group: Tushar Sabale is a co-founder of ‘London Plein Air Group’. In Summer of 2021, he along with Carol Owen founded a group which has more than 100 members, who come together once a month to paint Plein Air in the city of London. The idea is to encourage, support and form a friendly Plein air community for artists to paint together.

Tushar has won number of awards through his journey as an artis

He is the recipient of ‘The Rosemary Brushes Award’ at the ‘Royal Institute of Oil painters’ (ROI) 2024 annual show for the expressive brushwork for his painting Rainy Day, Pall Mall.

In 2023, Tushar was awarded, ‘The Green and Stone’ prize for his painting, ‘Girl on a Piano’, an award of £10,000 which is a fully funded solo show for the artist who exhibits a real feeling for their medium and its aesthetic potential.

He was also  awarded the prestigious, ‘Cadogan Award’ at the Annual summer show of ‘Chelsea Art society’ in June 2023. His painting was chosen amongst more than 1000 paintings by Lord Cadogan for the award for portraying true spirit and culture of the Chelsea community.

He has won many prizes at the Plein Air Competitions in the past including ‘The Great Broadway Painout’.

Tushar has also won a National Award twice in India for his paintings at the National painting competitions.

Tushar has been on a ‘Panel of Judges’ and a  ‘Guest of honour’ on many occasions:

• Main Prize Judge : ‘Broadway Arts Festival’, Annual Art Competition, September 2024
• Judging Panel : ‘Cookham Arts Club’ Annual Summer Show, August 2024
• Judging Panel : ‘Art in the City’ Gloucester’s Plein Air Competition, August 2024
• Judging Panel: ‘Chelsea Art Society’ Plein Air Competition- Annual Summer Show, June 2024
• Judge : ‘Enplein Air with Tushar Sabale’ Plein Air Competition at Cookham Festival, May 2024
• ‘Guest of Honour’ and Judge:  ‘Dorking Group of Artists’- Annual Spring Exhibition, 2023
• Judging Panel: ‘Chelsea Art Society’ Plein Air Competition- Annual Summer Show, 2023
• ‘Art Critique’: Walton Art Club, 2023
• ‘Guest of Honour’: Latur School of Art, India, 2022
• Judging Panel : Woking Art Society’-Annual Spring Exhibition, 2022

Tushar appeared on ‘ Landscape Artist of the Year’- Series 8 as one of the Pod artists that was aired on Sky Arts on 8 February 2023 filmed at Royal Ascot.

Tushar Sabale paints at Live events and weddings. For more information, bookings and pricing please visit the FAQ page on the above tabs and scroll through to read.

See the examples of his Wedding paintings here:  Live Wedding Paintings

• Read About ‘The Wapping Group of Artists’ : https://thewappinggroupofartists.co.uk/index.php
• Watch a small clip about the Wappers from 1956 here: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=vh_FlHQR7pA
• Read About ‘The Chelsea Art Society’ : https://chelseaartsociety.org.uk/about/
• Read About ‘The British Plein Air Painters’:  https://www.britishpleinairpainters.co.uk/