K. M. Adimoolam

Born in 1938 in Tiruchirapalli in Tamil Nadu, K. M. Adimoolams natural aptitude for drawing at an early age made him move to Chennai in 1959. There, under the influence of the sculptor Dhanapal, he enrolled in the School of Arts and Crafts. After completing his Diploma in Advanced Painting in 1966, Adimoolam started a series of black and white portraits of Mahatma Gandhi. Sketching from photographs of the great man, he finished nearly a hundred drawings that moved over 60 years of the Mahatmas life.
Adimoolams canvases partake of his inner energy and vision, emerging as an extension of his mind that seems to put down color without referring to the artist himself. At least for half the stage of a painting, I act as a tool and only after that I overcome this challenge, explains Adimoolam.