Beyond the Legacy Market
DOLNA: The Pulse of India Rising
India is the world's largest repository of art heritage, yet captures a mere 0.6% of the global market. Dolna pushes for the living artist. We are here to evolve that narrative.
Rebalancing the Ecosystem
The Correction
We are rebalancing the ecosystem by prioritizing the Now. This means ensuring that the living creator is the primary beneficiary of their work's value, and that the "Artist of the Land" stands shoulder-to-shoulder with the contemporary visionary.
By integrating these authentic voices onto a single, fair-trade platform, we are expanding the economic field for talent that deserves fair opportunity and exposure.
Our Philosophy
The Living Collage
In an age where technology can replicate technique and AI can mimic mastery, we return to what machines cannot forge: the human hand, the thinking mind, the beating heart behind every brushstroke.
At DolnaArt, we believe process matters as much as product. Whether through live art events like The Blank Canvas or intimate gallery encounters, we invite audiences to witness creation itself—to see the hesitation, the decision, the courage it takes to make art.
We create spaces where modern abstraction and ancient tribal lines overlap, where self-taught visionaries stand alongside trained masters, where genres blur and every authentic voice finds its moment. This is the Living Collage: art experienced not as finished objects on walls, but as living dialogue between creator, creation, and community.
We don't just curate art. We celebrate the irreplaceable act of human creation.
Mitu Basu
Artist. Curator. Founder.
Mitu Basu is an artist who understands what it means to create—the vulnerability of putting your work into the world, the uncertainty of whether it will find its home, the quiet hope that someone will truly see what you've made.
DolnaArt was born from that understanding. As both practicing artist and platform builder, Mitu brings an aesthetic eye shaped by Santiniketan's creative heritage and a structural clarity honed through years in hospitality communications. She knows the artist's journey intimately—the courage it takes to keep creating, the need for fair recognition, the desire to be valued not just as talent, but as a voice that matters.
At the heart of DolnaArt is a simple belief: artists deserve a platform built by someone who's stood where they stand. A space where merit speaks louder than networks, where traditional masters and contemporary visionaries share the same stage, and where every creator—self-taught or schooled, urban or rural—finds the support and respect they deserve.
Building a community where artists don't just survive, they thrive.
The Dolna Objective
Dolna is a premier art-resource platform dedicated to the strategic evolution of the Indian art market. By championing the living artist and integrating traditional mastery into the contemporary mainstream, we facilitate a fair, transparent, and high-energy ecosystem that reflects the true value of India's creative intelligence on the global stage.
Read The Blank Canvas Story