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Paintings catalogue

37 paintings, on the walls.

G Raman, works 1–18. M Suriyamoorthy, works 19–37. Sizes are height × width from the house catalogue. Price on request, by WhatsApp or email.

No. 1, 2007, from the house catalogue
No. 1, 2007, from the house catalogue

Artist profile

G Raman

Born 1942, Chennai

G. Raman was born in 1942 and trained at the Government College of Arts and Crafts, Chennai, with diplomas in drawing, painting and fine arts. He has worked for decades from the same house in Chennai, which is also his studio.

His paintings return to line, motif and symbol. Subjects are often drawn from Hindu mythology, with some Christian scenes, and from village life, as in Tambura Player (2009). He works over a black ground, then builds dense white drawing and bright colour.

Public accounts place his work in the National Gallery of Modern Art, New Delhi, the Birla Academy of Art and Culture, Kolkata, and the Hyderabad Museum, and note exhibitions in Madras, Bombay, Calcutta, Cochin, Singapore, Japan and Seoul.

Drawn from Artsy, artnet and Great Banyan Art. No published portrait of the artist is shown here.

Paintings by G Raman

No. 19, 2011, from the house catalogue
No. 19, 2011, from the house catalogue

Artist profile

M Suriyamoorthy

1944–2012, Thanjavur and Chennai

M. Suriyamoorthy was born on 16 August 1944 in Thanjavur and died in 2012. He finished first in his class at the Government College of Arts and Crafts, Chennai, in 1963, then studied as a State Lalit Kala Akademi scholar and as a national scholar at M.S. University, Baroda, with K.G. Subramanyan and Jyoti Bhatt.

He is counted with the Madras Art Movement. His pictures use folk and temple patterns, kolam, textile motifs and scenes of daily life: mother and child, dance, markets, ceremonies and the Hindu pantheon. He ground his own colours from seashells, tree bark and his father’s unused Siddha medicines, and painted with water from Indian rivers and from temple abhishekam.

He received the Lalit Kala Akademi national award at twenty-one. Later fellowships included a senior fellowship from the Department of Culture. His work is held by the National Gallery of Modern Art, the Lalit Kala Akademi, and museums in Chennai, Hyderabad and Chandigarh.

Drawn from DAG, Galerie Belvedere and South Asian Art Gallery. No published portrait of the artist is shown here.

Paintings by M Suriyamoorthy