P. Gnana To Ponnusamy Gnanadickam, finding an optimal balance is what his life and art are about. Known to the art world as P Gnana, he tells me that “art is [his] passion”. It was Singapore that gave him the opportunity to study art; he had come to The Little Red Dot to work for Shell but it was short-lived. After eight months of his stint at Shell, he answered to a deeper calling and registered for the Foundation in Art course at the LASALLE College of the Arts. In 2002, he became a recipient of a LASALLE Scholarship which enabled him to complete his visual art training. He hasn’t looked back since graduating with a qualification in Fine Arts, specialising in painting but his oeuvre also includes sculptures. He founded Gnani Arts with his wife, Ms Vidhya Gnana Gouresan, and for the past 16 years, they have been running this family business together. Gnana and Vidhya are a great team; Vidhya is his shakti. It is Vidhya who comes up with the titles for his pieces; it’s a joint effort he emphasises as his wife understands his soul and his art. His son was involved too in naming an [...]
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