Born in 1967, Kerala, India

“If one asks me what I paint, I would shrink away as I do not have a straight answer. I do not work to befit myself in any political or ideological tag. And also do not align myself with any ‘isms’ or trendy fashions in art. For me, art is a meditative solitary journey.  I am concerned with exploring the psychological moods and feelings that I experience. I do not have any words to describe it. At best, what I can say at this moment is that I am a painter of interiors – interiors of lives I see around, lives of the silenced, the marginalized and the alienated.”

Education: 1999 U.G.C. Net Examination for Lectureship in the subject of Visual Art, University Grants Commission, New Delhi. 1998 M.F.A.(First Class) Faculty of Fine Arts, M.S. University of Baroda , Gujarat. 1996 B.F.A. (First Class) Kala Bhavan, Viswa – Bharati University, Santiniketan, West Bengal. 1985 Diploma in Fine Arts Kerala Government Technical Exaninations, Tvpm

Awards: 1998 AIFACS (All India Fine Arts and Crafts Society) Award, New Delhi. 1997 AIFACS (All India Fine Arts and Crafts Society) Award, New Delhi. 1997 Kerala Lalita Kala Academy Award, Govt. of Kerala. 1996 Highly Commended Certificate, Kerala Lalita Kala Academy, Govt. of Kerala.1996 National Scholarship, Ministry of Human Resource Development, New Delhi. 1995  Haren Das Award, Academy of Fine Arts, Calcutta 1992 – 1996 Merit Scholarship, Kala Bhavan, Viawa-Bharati University, Santiniketan. 

Exhibitions and Art Camps: Have participated over 40 group shows in India and abroad, and about 13 Art Camps in India.

Lives and works at Muvattupuzha, Ernakulam