Laxma Goud

Iconic Indian artist and Padmashri Awardee, Laxma Goud is truly a master of media, having achieved success with oil, acrylic, watercolour, pen, ink, etching and sculpture in bronze and terracotta. His formative years in a village in Andhra Pradesh are reflected in his principal artistic theme—the special earthiness and innocence of rural life in India.

Through his exquisitely coloured paintings and drawings, art by Laxma Goud transports viewers to a rustic past where men in bright clothes and women with ornate jewellery revel among animals and lavish flora. He captures both the simplicity of these villagers and their unselfconscious eroticism. As he has aptly said, “There is eroticism in nature itself.”