Ramesh Balarapa

I am Ramesh.B, a contemporary artist from India working primarily in acrylic painting on canvas and mixed media works. My practice focuses on abstract figurative imagery, exploring human presence, animals, and emotional states through form, texture, and controlled color relationships.
I hold a Bachelor of Fine Arts in Painting and a Master of Fine Arts in Modern Painting. My academic training included drawing and painting, which continue to inform my visual approach, composition, and understanding of form.
My work develops through drawing-based exploration and imagination, combining structured composition with expressive distortion. I often work with limited palettes and layered surfaces to build depth, rhythm, and visual focus.
My visual language is shaped by continuous observation and imaginative interpretation of form, balancing control and spontaneity within acrylic and mixed media practice.
Currently, I am focused on building an ongoing body of acrylic and mixed media works that explore themes of human emotion, memory, and imagined spaces through contemporary figurative abstraction.

Master of Fine Arts (Central University of Hyderabad, India )