Suresh Kumar

For Suresh, painting is not just a process, it's a dialogue between himself and the natural world. Born in 1973 in Chennai and trained at the Government College of Arts & Crafts, he later refined his practice under the legendary Prof. Laxma Goud at the University of Hyderabad. From an early age, Suresh’s artistic sensibility gravitated towards abstraction, a language that could speak what words seldom could.

While Suresh found inspiration in the bold gestures and emotive intensity of Abstract Expressionists like Rothko and Motherwell, it was the Indian masters like S.H. Raza, Laxman Shrestha who taught him the language of inner vibration. But it is the quiet wisdom of senior artist John Tun Sien that Suresh cites as his most significant influence — not just as an artist, but as a human being. From him, Suresh learned that art is not merely something you make. It is something you become.

Nature, to him, is a living presence, the very energy that sustains all life. his deep alignment with nature doesn’t manifest as landscapes. Instead, it becomes colour, vibration, rhythm. What begins as observation turns to emotion, then into a gesture, until form dissolves and the Infinite enters.

Suresh sees art as a form of transcendence, not as escape from the world, but as a deeper way of being within it. His practice is rooted in the belief that creation must arise from a place “beyond the construct of the mind.” His paintings are not outcomes of thought but manifestations of presence.

His works do not aim to represent anything. There is no prescribed meaning, no fixed narrative. Instead, they offer a space for immersion, introspection, expansion. It does not describe.
It does not explain. It simply is. A vibration that mirrors the one within us, if we allow ourselves to feel it.