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Jagdish Chander’s works highlight his struggles and ambitions which deal with aesthetic and artistic integrity rather than personal fame. His obsession with the figure reflects an outlook which places humankind at the centre of the universe. He has been concerned with the portrayal of pure emotion and therefore employs the most direct form, the human face to express conflicting emotions such as anxiety, rage, despair, triumph, happiness, frustrated attempts to be heroic and fragmented efforts to maintain atleast some kind of recognisable human dignity. Chander’s artistic process includes building the composition slowly, layer by layer. Texture is vital in his works while he investigates the relationship between form and space. Colour, applied in quick strokes pushes hard against the boundaries of control. The spontaneity in his process allows for images and the process gets caught in an emotional response