Description

Badri Narayan(1929-2013) was an eminent artist, illustrator, author and story-teller. He started painting with no formal training, and his first public showing was in 1949, followed by a solo show in 1954. In the years since, he has had over 50 solo shows and his work is in several collections, including the National Gallery of Modern Art and the National Musuem in New Delhi.His paintings are intimate and appealing, often with an element of fantasy, with simple outlines and accessible subject matter in two-dimensional stylized representations. He also illustrated children's books and wrote short stories and verse. He has been the subject of a documentary by Mumbai All India Radio, and has received numerous awards, including the Padma Shri in 1987 and the Maharashtra Gourav Puruskar in 1990.

Badri Narayan worked as a ceramicist at the Vitrum Studio situated in Cumballa Hill, Bombay during early days of his career along with other artists like N Panchal, V M Raikar and Mahesh Tripathi. Ceramic tiles and plates were hand painted and then glazed at high temperatures, which gave them a unique glossy finish on the surface.