In the early days of his career as an artist, his paintings came across as bland and dull. It was in 1925 that he discovered his true calling outside the Kalighat temple in Calcutta. Jamini recognized his preference as well as interest in the field of Kalighat paintings. From that time onwards, his paintings started reflecting the Kalighat
style. By the early 1930s, Jamini Roy became fully conversant with the lines of the Kalighat idiom and switched over to the native materials. With the passage of time, his paintings started reflecting more and more influence of the indigenous art of Kalighat painting, along with the terracotta’s of the Vishnupur temple.
Patuajaal: A study of grids through Jamini Roy’s paintings