Bhaskar Hande was born in 1957 in Umbraj, district Pune, India.
He lives and works in The Hague, The Netherlands since 1983. He is a versatile artist.
His ambitions to be busy with verious disciplines of art, identifies him as the poet, painter, sculptor and graphic designer. He published three books of collection of poems in 1990, 1995 and 2001. The project "Your form is my creation" is his visual tribute to seventeen century Bhakti poet "Tukaram" has become first in it's kind of Indian history. Hande's Indianness is not ethnicity worn on the sleeve; it is the very substance of his cultural identity in multicultural global community of artists. Hande has been living many years in Europe,
his cultural signature has remained the same. Apart from his development Hande thinks day to day life, living and working in another country and culture than where he grew up. This process gives him creative impulses; every year he lives a couple of months in India, vice versa in Europe. He exhibits in India and in Europe. The change in surrounding keeps his thoughts constant in process. His works represent meditative fall of his merging colours and changing environments. The colours become brighter and brighter, forms are clear than ever and words are more mysteries.
Though changing face of INDIA and EUROPE make him more enthusiast and impulsive to create new works and write his experiance to practisize the profession. His own involvement in arts shown both the worlds interest. Since 1997, Give and Take in Art projects demostrate the activities on international leval with top quality of contemporary paintings, sculptures, art performance, music, poetry, films and other art related activities.