Gaganendranath had very little formal education at the St Xavier's School, where he took a brief interest in drawing and painting. His interest in life and later art was limited to and conditioned by his love for everything native or Swadeshi. Experience: His work can be broadly classified into specific phases like brushwork with Japanese influence, some with gold backgrounds, portrait sketches, illustrations for Jeevan Smriti, his semi-cubistic experiments, watercolour drawing of rural Bengal, the Himalayan studies, the Chaitanya series, caricatures of Indian life, pictures of folklore, and representations of the symbolism of death and the other world. His works on canvas are an interplay of the two colours, developing a mysterious relationship on canvas.