How does one tell the world that one is an artist even though one has never dabbled with paints? Well, maybe one can host a website.

That is exactly what Ankur Gupta of Proman Associates, a Borivali based health industry consultant, has done. Though Gupta, an IIMalumni, is not a conventional artist, he uses the mouse of his Apple Macintosh to express his artistic talent.

"Since 1995 I have been making fractal inspired images and have the largest collection of Ganpati images on my website, www.artindia.com," says 46-years-old Gupta, who has produced two CD-ROMs, titled Treatise on Indian Pharmacopoeia and the multillngual pied piper of Hamlyn.

 Thanks to the website someone in Japan Happened to see Gupta's fractal paintings. The result being he has been invited to renaissance 2001, an exhibition of digital images korganised by keio University, Shonan Fujisawa Campus inJapan to be held on October 23 and 24. Printouts of the images received will be put up at the campuses and also covered on the internet.

If one is a promising artist and wants to sell ones works, www.artindia.com is willing to host six scanned images at an annual fee of Rs. 1,000. In fact, Gupta did sell a painting to a US Buyer who visited his site. "The buyer sent me an email followed with the value and I sent the painting through courier."
His paintings are on canvas imbued with UV coating and melamine finish. Among his many buyers are Reckon Diagnostocs, the Sarabhai Group, Club Aquria etc. Gupta will be exhibition his works at the Nehru Centre in December.