Suresh K. Nair

He was inspired by the works of Rabindranath Tagore, Nandalal Bose, Benode Behari Mukherjee and Ramkinker Baij and continued his studies at the Department of Painting, Visva Bharati University, Santiniketan.

He was brought up in the culturally diverse Valluvanadu region in Vellinezhi, Palakkad District in Kerala, South India, and observed the living traditions of performing arts like Kathakali, Bharatanatyam, Mohiniyatam, Theyyam and Thira.

[4] The images created on the boundary wall of the Government Vocational Higher Secondary School are related to local history and tradition in order to promote peace and harmony.

The 7,000-sq-ft wall is divided into 25 panels depicting local history, culture and tradition,[6] and it is framed as a story-telling scroll starting with a Moon and finishing with a Sun made of mirrors.

There are portraits of Mozhikunnath Brahmadattan Namboodiripad, an eminent figure of the 1921 Malabar rebellion; Netaji Subhash Chandra Bose, a political leader fighting for independent India; Gandhi talking to the people of Cherpulassery; P. T. Bhaskara Panicker, a great scientist and educator of Kerala; Kannattil Ramanezhuthachan, the well-loved clerk of the school, who planted the banyan trees, and many others.