About us

Shilpa Bharati was founded by renowned artist Late Shri Gora Chand Paul. Since 1950 it started the journey of sculpting and idol making businesses in India mainly at West Bengal Kolkata. It has come long way being in the heart of Bengali religious festival delivering scores of high quality idols year after year.

The quality and innovative works of art have captured the heart of Bengalis and all other art-loving people in India and abroad. Our creations have reached the shores of many countries like US, UK, Australia, Newzeland etc. We have elevated our standard of artwork by painstakingly indulged into this fine modeling activities.

Our Durga Idols have decorated in many famous Surbojanin Durgotsav Commite's pandels year after year like, Vivekananda Sporting Club, Mudiali Club, Sorir Sangathan Somiti (Beleghata), Mitra Sangha (Beleghata), Nalin Sarkar Street Durgostav Committee etc. Our Durga Idols also decorated the Durgotsav arranged by Bengali Association "Antorik" in Dallas, USA, Bay Area Probasee Inc in San Francisco (USA), Auckland (Newzeland), London Durga Puja Dassera Committee (Laxmi Mittal) etc. We have two workshops in Kumartuli busy in producing all types of idols, models, and sculptures throughout the year. We work on different materials such as clay, fiberglass, thermocol (Shola), paper pulp etc. We take utmost care to preserve the deity, divinity of the religious sentiment of the Bengali as well as people of other communities.

Though we are mostly producing Durga, Kali, Jagaddhatri, Lakshmi, Saraswati, Kartikeya, Radha Krishna, Ganesha, Viswakarma etc. We also worked on plenty of assignments of producing other religious Gods and Goddesses. We also do sculpting of other religious and non-religious models like freedom fighters, renowned writers etc.

Though our heart of the institution, Shri Gora Chand Paul had departed us few years back but his work and level of involvement in this traditional business inspired his able sons Gour Chandra Paul, Gopal Paul to held the prestige of the establishment very high by delivering quality artworks in the name of "Gora Chand Paul & Sons" having key members:

Certificate of Appriciation

Cerificate of Appriciation from dalas