C Krishnaswamy

C Krishnaswamy is a young artist from Chennai. He is a graduate of the Government College of Arts & Crafts, Chennai. He completed his BFA and MFA in Painting there. He has created several new works inspired by the forces that rule his life. He has created a revolusionary new series of works titled 'Kundalini Rising'. These works are created by performing yoga on the painted canvas that results in images.

Krishnaswamy decided to add extra meaning to this already personal series of works and has brought in influences from his younger days of growing up in the rural town of Chinna Salem. His current works invoke the power, meaning and translations from the Ayyanaar Gods.


Please give us your comments on his works.

Protection Force, 2008.
Watercolour on Paper.
22 x 30 Inches.









Protecting God, 2008.
Watercolour on Paper.
22 x 30 Inches.









My Island, 2008.
Oil & Acrylic on Canvas.
40 x 67 Inches.

This work was created by first painting the canvas with the purple colour and then performing yoga on the canvas. Later the artist painted two portraits of himself doing the aasanas in two contrasting colours.