"I love nature. I like to feel its overwhelming beauty, truth and power. I paint what moves me."
 
The undercurrent calm, delicate, firm and honest qualities of nature are reflected in Swati's themes. It is the ultimate source of her forms and configurations. "I selectively recollect the memory of observed contents as orderly configurations of colour - masses with shapes, defined by contour lines on a two dimensional pictorial surface, divided into flat colour areas. These shapes and spaces are residual images of terrains, skies, land, roads, plants. By juxtaposing them, they no longer have any resemblance to natural phenomena. On the contrary, they become expressive contours with enclosures of colour and shape with an organic rhythm. My paintings are at a junction between representation, formalism and expressionism".
 
Her thoughtful imaginary world is also inclined to the realities of human life. She develops herideas from the daily lives of common people. "I believe that every human being wants to love and to be loved. Nobody knows the final moment of life. I use this basic truth to develop my paintings." The suggestive colours and common symbols are upheld by lucid plastic rhythms. The insistent flowing, vegetative rhythms of semi-abstract and abstract compositions are rich with emotion.
 
Swati has a Diploma in Fine Art and in Indian Style Drawing and Painting from the Government College of Art and Craft, Kolkata, 1978 and 1980. She has held solo shows at Leela Art Gallery, Mumbai in 2006 and the Lalit Kala Akademi, New Delhi, in 1999. Recent group shows in which Swati has participated are the Academy of Fine Arts, Kolkata, 2008, Bengal Artists' Society, sponsored by Gallery Exposure, Teachers' Government College of Art and Craft, Kolkata, Lalit Kala Akademi, New Delhi, 2007.
 
A founder member of Bengal Artists' Society, Kolkata, 2005, Creative Wave in 2000 and Fantasy Artists' Group in 1979, Swati is also a member of the Bombay Art Society and the Academy of Fine Arts, Kolkata.
 
Frequently written about in magazines and newspapers - The Statesman, The Economic Times, Sunmarg, Desh, Paribartan, Jugantar, etc, Swati's works are in many private collections in India and abroad.