Arya is purely an artist of Indian ethos, culture and customs. He has perfected the difficult technique of watercolour so well that he became the lone exponent of the wash medium and imagery of the Neo-Bengal School in Uttar Pradesh. The impact of colour in his wash paintings is vibrant and pulsating with life. Wash painting has been defined as a poem in line and colour. Hence poetic effects are heightened by the use of hazy lines and colour. The tones of colour when superimposed on one another, promote phantasmagoria of colourful shades, ennobling and uplifting its appeal. His romantic imagination has fancifully sought abode in myths and legends as well as the usual ways of expression in various festivities, celebrations and other cultural traits of Indian life.

He was born in Peshawar, North West Frontier Province, Pakistan. His ancestors were prosperous businessmen. He had no inclination to adopt his family business, and he developed his aptitude towards art. He then took to photography which inspired him to enter into the realm of art. After partition of India, his family migrated and settled at Hewet Road, Lucknow. In college he was mainly inspired and educated by his senior C.D. Sharma.

TEACHING EXPERIENCE: Head of the Deptt. of Fine Arts, Govt. College of Art, Lucknow.

Lives and works in Lucknow.