Devi Rani Dasgupta is a young self taught surrealistic painter who tries to connect the known to the unknown through the association of forms which is the best example of structure and balance. Devi Rani Dasgupta was born in 22nd Oct. 1983 in Motihari, a small town situated in northern part of Bihar near Nepal border. At that time in Motihari there was a lack of good school, colleges and basic infrastructural amenities. She belonged to a joint family living with around 20 to 25 family members all around. Her grandfather and uncles were the renowned Doctors in Motihari. Her father was an Engineer. Her family is very rich in culture and heritage. All the members have the artistic sense of mind. She was multi talented but was mainly fond of singing and painting. In her daily life when all her brothers and sisters used to play around, she enjoyed drawing on the huge verandah with a chalk at the tender age of three. She could memorize a song she listened once. Those days proper teachers in the field of art were also not available. Occasionally in school she learned painting. She participated in number of drawing and music competition organized by Rotary club, Sports club, Bihar police etc. and won the first prize. Her maternal grandparents lived in Kolkata. They advised her father to send her to Shantiniketan for higher education in the field of art so as to further enrich her.  Though her father recognized her knack but was unwilling to send her out at a young age.
She got her basic knowledge of drawing and music from her mother and grandmother. Finally her father appointed a teacher for classical music and painting at the age of 11. Besides learning art she pursued her graduation in Zoology (Hons.) fom B.B.A. University. She always liked to work in a silent corner of her room and do her riyaz or paintings. She learned painting from different teachers specialized in different fields but she was highly influenced by the famous folk art of India specially the Madhubani and Pot Painting. She has done a no of madhubani painting and mastered in this art. She lived a few months in interior regions of Uttar Pradesh (Jaunpur, Sikrara) and learned folk art there. She use to visit Kolkata once in a year in her summer vacation and used to collect good books and visit art galleries. She learned pot paintings from different pot artists and spend hours in Milan Mela to see their work and learn the intricacies. She has participated in many group shows from the year1998 with her teachers all over India. Finally in 21st Jan 2006 she got married in Kolkata. After that her outlook has changed a lot. With every passing day she tried to improve her knowledge and work. She participated in number of shows within a few years due to support of her family and got introduced with various renowned artists who helped her with their support and suggestions.
Her work was inspired by the Indian Classical Art. She was the few Indian painters who in breaking away from the tradition demonstrated the Indian art, which at this time is stagnating. Her painting has her unique style of surrealism. The random and surreal elements in her works are rooted in her own perception of the world and its people. She likes to work both on landscape and composition, but her first love of painting is human sketches. I do not want to create any visual effect where one has to find the subject which comes to my heart walking by itself. Her works have developed from studying shapes and surfaces of objects, and from associating simple geometrical shapes. Geometrical shapes rule her paintings like triangle, rectangle, circle, square, sphere, ring etc. She applies acrylic colours in different layers completing it by applying bold textures and strokes. She had also achieved mastery over capturing the quality of light, an effect that lends her work a superb enigmatic beauty. She paints like a child which is outside the arena of logic. Every day she experiments with her work and tries to explore some new things beyond the appreciation. Beside her profession she is a mother and a good house wife also.