G. R. Santosh

Born to a middle class Kashmiri family in 1929, Santosh was fascinated with the natural beauty of Kashmir from a very young age. In one of his T.V. interviews he said, "In Kashmir, art was taught in school after class V. But I remember drawing in class II, starting, at the onset, on a landscape which I liked so much that I concentrated on landscapes, doing several of these before I changed my style." Santosh studied art till his matriculation but had to give up on any dreams of studying it any further for he was forced to start earning bread for the family after the early death of his father.