Ketut Kaprus Jaya

Full Name: Ketut Kaprus Jaya
Pen Name: Kaprus Jaya
Photograph by: Dewi Dian Reich
Link to Photograph: https://sawidji.com/
Website for biography
Place: Sawidji Gallery
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Biography

In English

Ketut Kaprus Jaya, contemporary artist in Bali. Born in Budakeling Karangasem Regency Bali, on the 15th July 1970. A veteran of the highs and lows of Balinese Art Industry, he has remained constant to his art with no prevarications. Through three decades of professional art practice, Ketut Kaprus Jaya has maintained and guarded the purity of his creative process. True to self, to the moment, to Nature.

As a contemporary artist in Bali today, Kaprus Jaya has two distinct styles that he exercises equally diligently. As a result of the strong commerciality of the art scene locally. The use of watercolour for ‘en plen air’ pieces as he travels and explores different destinations and allows him to teach painting to students.

In Ketut Kaprus Jaya’s watercolours, his technical strength is evident. Through this regular application of ‘en plen air’ watercolours he continues to hone a technical mastery as a key pillar in his art practice. The division of the two styles do reflect the artist’s own method of expressing different facets of himself. Perhaps one may say that one deals with the aspect that is relatable to the external world. Whilst the other is pure, absolutely pure of the inner self. Intuitive, meditative, spontaneous. Filled with an innocence. With the intangible, Spirit and emotion.

Ketut Kaprus Jaya is member of Sawidji Artist Collective and Gallery.