He works primarily in acrylics and watercolour, and has also produced drawings, etchings, screenprints, lithographs and monotypes.
His work is figurative and features bright colour, economic use of line and makes use of collage, whilst referring to conceptualism, abstraction and modernism.
He studied at Newcastle upon Tyne University (1976–80) and the Royal College of Art, London (1982–85).
[4][2][3][5] Kalorkoti has been a part-time visiting lecturer at a number of art schools and won a Netherlands Government Scholarship (1986–87).
He was appointed a Bartlett Fellow in the Visual Arts at Newcastle University in 1988 and was artist in residence at Cleveland County in 1992.