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I founded Virtuoso's Palette Arts school and Virtuoso's Art Gallery in 2003, work as the director, teach the skills of drawing and painting. Students in general as well as the students of architecture, fashion, animation, interiors, and also housewives, working and retired doctors, IAS officers, IIM professors, actors, cine-directors are my students.

I am the founder of this company. The company has courses in drawing and painting, and also sculpture. People from all walks of life study here. The special feature is that we train Archtects, Interior designers, Animation students with the required perspective, anatomy and free-hand skills.Also we prepare for the entrance of NATA, NID, Srishti, Chitrakala Parishath

My debut novel Aesthetics of Love was launched at Reliance Timeout, Cunningham road, Bengaluru, on Dec 17th 2011.It is a story of an artist, his love and his quest fro sensibilities.

A young artist, however passionately involved in creating themes over his canvases has many quests to be dealt with. His lonely heart is yearning for a companionship – the new paradigm of art with abstract expressions surprises him that he had to adapt himself to the contemporary sensibilities. And a beautiful girl, Whimsy, brings about a sea change in his life. She comes to his studio to learn painting, whereas her inquisitiveness about various styles of painting, music and literature intrigues the artist. Her queries are his own. Rather a reticent artist, answers her queries briefly while he would write elaborately in his diary later. He writes almost everything they talk.Whimsy, a poet herself discovers his secretive writing habit in a curious way. Since the theme of his writing is their own conversation, Whimsy becomes the protagonist for the narrating artist. They share each other’s poems, talk about nature, birds, clouds and, their whims and fancies. And he writes them all.They develop intimate feelings for each other even as the artist’s quest to establish as a successful artists continues. They both love each other but there are certain dilemmas

My first novel Aesthetics of Love contains a series of spontaneous and natural expressions which flowed from me when I had been on my quest to find my own style in painting as well as my love. I had been inspired by a couple of talented girl friends who themselves were poets. However the work is presented in the form of fiction. The plot which is set in the studio of an artist in a city has a narrating artist and his protagonist Whimsy. Whimsy is a beautiful girl who visits the artist at his studio to learn painting skills. Her intellect, the witty talks during their painting sessions, and the poems written by her would inspire a rather reticent artist to converse with her openly. He would also share some of his writings which he had kept secretive for many years. The saga goes on with their relationship turning quite intimate later. But there is an intriguing separation of the duo, even as the artist is chased by the challenges of establishing himself. Would he be successful in finding both his love in Whimsy as well as his genre in painting?