Shiva Vangara

Shiva Vangara - an Artist SOUL from India. Born in 1963 in Tenali, Andhra Pradesh - known as Andhra Paris in India. He is a born artist with no formal training - being born in artist’s family. His father V.L.S. Gopala Rao was a Drawing teacher and portrait artist, 2nd generation student of renowned Bengali painter Pramod Kumar Chatterji ( who lived in Sri Aurobindo Ashram) and Shiva's great grandfather was a temple architect. Shiva's basic foundation was realism and portraits. Then in 1983 when he started his quest for Truth at Sri Aurobindo Ashram, Pondicherry, India - his perception of art changed entirely and entered into spiritual dimension. As a child in school and college he had always a winner in painting competitions, even at State level. His inspiration was “The highest art is that which by an inspired use of significant and interpretative form unseals the doors of the spirit." - The Mother. He did his first professional portrait at the age of 14. He had his first solo exhibition in Bombay at Gateway of India in 1993. Then, Sri Aurobindo Ashram and Auroville in 1995. Several portraits and paintings are with Bollywood film personalities and a major work and two portraits are in London and USA. About 100 small water color paintings of spiritual themes are in collection with Sri Aurobindo Ashram. He likes to work with ALKYDS, most advanced colors from Winsor and Newton,London. At present he is mostly busy with his ambitious Hollywood project entitled Fourth Dimension