An artist of the Warli tradition of painting, Rajesh Vangad is a painter who also works with murals and illustrations. Born in the village of Ganjad in Thane, Maharashtra, Vangad is a self-taught artist; his formative lessons in paintings came through his parents and later through the noted Warli painter, Jivya Soma Mashe.

Since 2013, Vangad has worked in collaboration with the photographer Gauri Gill for their collaborative series titled Fields of Sight. Over Gill’s photographs of the coastal region of Ganjad and nearby Dahanu villages, Vangad executed drawings in the Warli idiom; bringing local botanical life, myths, community rituals and oral history in contact with the photographs’ narrative of urbanisation, industrialisation and ecological despair.