jaipur the balmy winter sun blank mounted canvas sealed paints and brushes in a basket a cup of hot coffee under the tree were just incidental for jatin das stokes of colour energise into rhythmic art form with elan and ease and hes done it so often to learnunlearnand then just take the course of the heart like a child creating yet another masterpiece and lending eternity to a fresh piece of art in the city just for a day to attend the art camp jatin proficient in varied genres of art as a painter poet collector and sculptor wanted now to talk about how art is losing its essence in the hands of modern artists how can you call yourself an artist with two years of work any art is an amalgamation of sensitivity rhythm intensity embedded culture and tradition and that is not taught in any school if there truly was an artist then you could call da vinci one said jatin to be creative you have to be a child he said addressing young art students who were visiting the camp you have to listen feel and experience to create a stir plus add the right fusion of modern and the traditional in whatever you do unfortunately a lot of people are just trailing the middle path sans any zeal said jatin the crux of my work is dynamism passion movement energy it has no parameters of time and space you have to soak into the essence he said adding a green coat to the figure it is perhaps typical of him to infuse as much passion in his talk as he does in his work lack of sensitivity and passion towards preserving the rich cultural legacy pained him rajasthan has thousands of artists and is a rich treasure house of handicrafts jewellery and miniature paintings but people lack the fervour to showcase them together for the future generation in a museum there were over a 100 museums in the colonial period but the last 62 years would have barely chipped in two or three museums he said he started pankha museum 25 years ago these 6500 fans some over 200 years old have been arduously collected from all over the world avidly talking about his collection of unique fans he said very soon the collection would be housed in a dedicated museum the national pankha museum in delhi there is a lot of research also that is being done on the same rajasthan could certainly do something like that among the other philanthropic activities jatin currently devotes time and energy to the creation of the j d centre of art that he is founding in bhubaneshwar orissa the centre will house and support a range of traditional and contemporary visual and plastic arts in addition to gallery spaces he plans a sculpture garden an openair auditorium archives and conservation and research units