SIVABALAN
S. SIVABALAN
S. SIVABALAN
S. SIVABALAN
SIVABALAN
S. SIVABALAN
S. SIVABALAN
S. SIVABALAN
S. SIVABALAN
S. SIVABALAN
S. SIVABALAN
S. SIVABALAN
Artist
“My interest was always with registering paintings which reminds you about our culture, tradition and rural lifestyle. With this fast pace changes we see in our city lifestyle, my paintings would show how people were living for coming generations”
Sivabalan’s paintings remind viewers of nativity and rural Indian villages, which we rarely see in our concrete jungle lifestyle. Grown in Kumbakonam, a town known for Cholas temples and lush green fields, he developed interest towards arts from his early years. Having completed his B.F.A at the Government College of Arts and Crafts, Kumbakonam, Sivabalan went on to finish his Masters degree there as well.
Though he predominantly works with water colour medium, his oil paintings are a sight to behold as well. He has participated in more than twenty-five group exhibitions and camps and has held eleven one man shows. Among his awards are the Bard Fest Merit Award, Trichy, 1997, The State Award Oviya Nunkalai Kuzhu, Chennai 1999, and the Water Colour Award in 2000 from the Camlin Art Exhibition, Bangalore. His paintings are in many private collections in India and abroad. Sivabalan’s paintings are a feast to the eye for all art lovers.
Founded in early 2003, The Gallery of Gnani Arts has been a local and regional trend-setter within its area of research, curation and collection expertise – South Indian contemporary art by masters and international artists. Apart from curating and marketing its primary collection of art by masters and senior artists, the Gallery continues to launch the careers of a selective number of artists from Singapore (where it is based) and from other parts of the globe. Clients of The Gallery of Gnani Arts include the Singapore Art Museum of the National Heritage Board (Singapore) and numerous corporations and individuals in Europe and Southeast Asia.
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