Jayashree Chakravarty, born 1956, in Tripura and spent her childhood in Agartala, where she was first introduced to art. Jayashree Chakravarty’s subject of interest was always nature which came from experience in living in a small town.

Exposed to the cosmopolitanism of her immediate environment, surrounded by students and scholars from all over the world, Chakravarty was able to trace several similarities between Agartala and Santiniketan in terms of the ways in which small towns at the time were morphing into more urban spaces.

During the early 1980s, Jayashree moved to Vadodara, Gujarat and joined M.S. University for a PG Diploma in Painting. This change brought influences to her practice from post-Independence narrative art, especially as Vadodara became almost a transitional location between Agartala, subject of Shantiniketan, and Provence, France where the artist attended a two-year artist-residence programme between 1993-1995.