P. GOPINATH

P. Gopinath was born in Ponnani, Kerala in 1948. He received a first-class diploma in painting from the Government College of Arts and Crafts, Madras in 1970. Between 1978 and 1990 he participated in a number of graphic workshops in New Delhi, Chennai, and Kerala, including one at London's Royal College of Art. Since 1967 he has exhibited at many major venues throughout India, and regularly receives awards for his work.

P. Gopinath is an influential member of the Madras Art Movement and is one of the founder-members of Cholamandal Artists Village. Taking inspiration from regional culture, his artistic path began with watercolours, which were influenced by K.C.S Paniker. He explores visual abstraction and employs brilliant hues with native symbols, adding to the neo-tantra heritage in Modern Indian Art. His canvases, characterized by warm hues and organic shapes, have continuously displayed semi-abstract experimentation. Gopinath's philosophy, rooted in the perpetual change of the universe, reveals itself in his vivid, philosophically complex paintings at Cholamandal Artists Village.

His work is held in a number of individual and corporate collections in India and abroad.