Call him a fusion artist, if you like for making beautiful use of enchanting Radha-Krishna postures and turning them into contemporary modern art, eye catching and unforgettable at once.
Stand before a Kanhai portrait of Krishna and, very often, you lose the sense of time as you keep on gazing at the Lord of Vrindavan, which seems to cast a spell over the on looker.
A life size portrait of Atal Bihari Vajpayee former Prime Minister of India, painted by Kanhai, hangs in the Central Hall of the Parliament at New Delhi, which was inaugurated in February 2019 by President of India, Ramnath Kovind in the presence of our Prime Minister Shri Narendra Modi and several others.
Modest to the core, Kanhai is an artist of International fame known to the political elite of the world, with several Presidents and Prime Ministers among his clients whose portraits were done by him in 2000.
The list includes names like Prime Minister Atal Bihari Vajpayee and former Deputy Prime Minister of India Lal Krishna Advani, Bill & Hillary Clinton, Barack Obama and his family, besides the eminent industrialist Aditya Birla and his wife Rajshri Birla together with, one of her own kind politician, film actor and dream girl Hema Malini.
The paintings of the father-son duo are so highly acclaimed in the art circles of India that in 2004, Two research scholars, one Sangeeta Gupta of Bhimrao Ambedkar University Agra and the other Mohd.