An Artist Soul from India
Born in 1963 in Tenali, Andhra Pradesh - known as Andhra Paris in India. He is a born artist with no formal training - being born in an artists' family. His father V.L.S. Gopala Rao was a Drawing teacher and portrait artist, 2nd generation student of renowned Bengali painter Pramod Kumar Chatterji ( who lived in Sri Aurobindo Ashram) and Shiva's great grand father was a temple architect. Shiva's basic foundation was realism and portraits. Then, in 1983 when he started his quest for Truth at Sri Aurobindo Ashram, Puducherry, India...more