Shailesh Pandit has been working with ceramics since early childhood and received his training under his father B.R Pandit and at Golden Bridge Pottery in Pondicherry. He experiments with traditional techniques as well as sculptural ceramics and installations. At the very core of his ceramic work is a vessel that has many associations including nourishment, legacy, maturity, turmoil and transformation. For the past 20-25 years these vessel forms in his work have started evolving into sculptural, hybrid, geometric, biomorphic forms. He is drawn to the form, surface treatment, embellishment, its colour and pattern. Colour is one of the ways he communicates emotion and has developed a strong interest in detail and minutiae. When working on a new piece, he is often responding to some emotion within.

Shailesh has participated in numerous exhibitions such as  the Lalit Kala Akademi, Lucknow, 2019 Gauhar Mahal, Bhopal, 2019 Saptapharni, Hyderabad, 2019, at Amdavad Haat, Ahmedabad, 2019 and at India Craft Week 2022. He has won certificates in ceramic sculpture from the Prafulla Dahanukar Art Foundation and from the All India Fine Arts and Crafts Society (New Delhi) amongst others.