Born in the year 1982 in Palakkad, Kerala. As a person hails from a rural place of Kerala, the imageries of my works are drawn from the purity and beauty of the village. The peasant life of my family enriched me with a culture which is rooted in nature. My house is surrounded by lush vegetation and an atmosphere filled with the songs of birds and squirrels. Dogs, cattle, and chickens live in harmony as an extension of the family. The paddy fields, mountains and rivers are very much a part of the life and they all together shaped my aesthetic perspective.
The narrative elements in the works are intending to explore the interrelationship of everything in nature and thus reminding an ancient dictum of the Indian sages “Vasudhaiva kudumbakam”, the whole cosmos is a single family, according to them all entities in this universe is a manifestation of one life energy.
The organic nature of the medium like watercolour enables me to immerse in the process in such a way that the very act of doing painting turns to a meditation. The dedication of mind in a physical activity with an undivided attention is a quality I derived from the agricultural activity. It calms the mind and takes away all the internal conflicts. It is only when the conflicts of the mind cease, the truth will be revealed to us. It will be revealed not in logic but in light, the 'truth' that which is eternal and all pervading.
Education
BFA- Painting, Govt. College of Fine Arts, Thrissur, Kerala.2008-’09.
MVA- Painting, Faculty of Fine Arts, M.S. University Baroda, Gujarat -2010-’11
Exhibitions:
“India Art Fair Edition-13” New Delhi, presented by Palette Art Gallery in 2022.
"Collective 22" at Palette art gallery 2021.
“India Art Fair Edition-12” New Delhi, presented by Palette Art Gallery in 2020.
“Song of Soil” at Palette Art Gallery, New Delhi 2019.
“India Art Fair Edition-11” New Delhi, presented by Palette Art Gallery in 2019.
" Persistence of Memory" at Akara Art Gallery, Mumbai 2018.
“India Art Fair Edition-10” New Delhi, presented by Palette Art Gallery in 2018.
“Long Story Short” at Palette Art Gallery, New Delhi 2017.
“A New Space” at Nazar Art Gallery Baroda 2016.
“The Baroda March” at Rukshaan Art 2015, ‘16, ’17.
“Back to college” VADFEST, at M.S.U. Baroda, 2015.
“Real and Imagined Space” at DHI Artspace, Hyderabad 2014.
“Summer Show” at Galerie88, Kolkata 2014.
‘Hanging Terraces’ curated by Kavita Balakrishnan at Gallery Veda, Chennai 2013.
‘Fluid’ curated by Venkataraman Divakar at Gallery Site, Baroda 2013.
‘Island’ curated by Bijoy Velekkatt at Classic Contemporary Connoisseur, Cochin 2013.
‘Absence and Presence’ curated by Kanika Gupta at Faculty of Fine Arts Gallery, Baroda 2012.
‘UFO 0110’ International Digital Film Festival, New Delhi, 2012 for the video “Decisive Moment”
‘Assembled’ Portfolio-Summer show at Priyasri Art gallery, Mumbai 2012.
‘Movement Medium Metaphor’ a laboratory of thoughts and materials at NIV art centre, New Delhi 2011.
Group show at Aswitha art Gallery Chennai 2011.
‘Specimen37’ degree show College of Fine Arts Thrissur, Kerala 2009.
‘Hide & Seek’ curated by Kavita Balakrishnan at Gallery OED Cochin 2008.
‘Gestures’ an exposition of painting, drawing and graphic prints at Chithrasala art gallery,Kerala Lalith kala Academi, Thrissur, Kerala 2007.
Scholarship:
Kerala Lalit Kala Academy Scholarship for art students 2009.
Kerala Lalit Kala Academy Scholarship for art students 2011.
Residency:
NIV art residency at Delhi 2011
Aswitha artist residency at Chennai 2011
Harmony Art Residency – Mumbai 2016
Workshops:
Participated in ‘ Sound art / Intermedia Workshop’ by Prof. Igal Myrtenbaum at painting department Faculty of Fine Arts, M.S.University of Baroda, 2013.
Participated in the Workshop ‘Negotiating Individual Subjectivities and other Excesses’ by Rakhi peswani, at Faculty of Fine Arts, M.S.University of Baroda, 2010.
Participated in ‘video editing’ Workshop by Basavaraj, at Faculty of Fine Arts, M.S.University of Baroda, 2009.
Lives and works in Baroda, India