Akbar Padamsee was born in Mumbai in 1928. He studied at Sir J.J School of Arts in Mumbai, later joined Progressive Artists Group.

Metascape 1983 one of the most familiar of Padamsee?s oeuvre of artwork. Padamsee?s pioneering spirit has allowed him to experiment with a wide range of mediums: the range of the traditional ones to his recent experiments with photography and digital printmaking. Whatever his chosen medium, the artist conveys a command over space, form and colour. Metascape is a development from landscape that is influential in leading the viewer in to artist?s space to have a closer.

The shank of knife leaves thick shades of depth to the plains in reds, browns and ochre yellows. The artist has signed at the topmost right ?Padamsee 83?