ArtsBespoke

Works

Ramesh Gorjala

b. 1979, Srikalahasti, Andhra Pradesh

A square painting: a large vermilion half face in profile with a green eye, ringed by seated green and yellow deities, with a winged cow leaping over a brown and green chequerboard.A square Kalamkari style painting: a saffron yellow elephant face with a blue ornamental ear and white tusks, filled with small gold figures of Shri Ganesha Ji, a drummer and attendants, beside a green leaf band.A square Kalamkari style painting: an olive gold elephant face in heavy black outline, filled with pale green figures of dancing and standing Shri Ganesha Ji, a drummer and a trident, beside a gold band and a turquoise leaf panel.A square Kalamkari style painting: an ivory white face with a vaishnava tilak and a flat orange disc at the mouth, with Shri Hanuman Ji figures with folded hands climbing the right edge beside a gold mandala.A square Kalamkari style painting: a turquoise face in profile with a white vaishnava tilak; inside the contour Shri Krishna Ji plays the flute, coiled by a patterned serpent, with devotees at the base and green and orange panels at the sides.A square Kalamkari style painting: a teal green face in profile with a white tilak; inside it Shri Krishna Ji plays the flute among cows, with devotees at upper left, a white paisley panel and a brown feather panel at the right.A square Kalamkari style painting: a saffron yellow face in profile with a gold nose ring, a crimson lotus panel at the right, and Maa Lakshmi Ji seated on a lotus inside the contour within a patterned sari border.

Ramesh Gorjala is a contemporary painter from Srikalahasti in Andhra Pradesh who works in the Kalamkari tradition. Sources give his birth year as 1979 and describe his family as weavers. He took his first training from his uncle, the Kalamkari artist Balaji Theretham, and later earned a BFA and an MFA at Jawaharlal Nehru Technological University in Hyderabad.

He works in the hand drawn Srikalahasti style, painting Hindu gods and goddesses drawn from mythology, with detailed patterns and a palette of gold, red and green. He moved from vegetable dyes to acrylics on canvas and handwoven paper. He received the Mahatma Gandhi Birth Centenary Memorial Award in 2000 and a State Award from the Andhra Pradesh Crafts Council in 2002.

With the house

AB / WORKS

Questions we are asked

AB / FAQ

Who is Ramesh Gorjala?

Ramesh Gorjala is a contemporary painter from Srikalahasti in Andhra Pradesh who works in the Kalamkari tradition. Sources give his birth year as 1979 and describe his family as weavers. He took his first training from his uncle, the Kalamkari artist Balaji Theretham, and later earned a BFA and an MFA at Jawaharlal Nehru Technological University in Hyderabad. He works in the hand drawn Srikalahasti style, painting Hindu gods and goddesses drawn from mythology, with detailed patterns and a palette of gold, red and green. He moved from vegetable dyes to acrylics on canvas and handwoven paper. He received the Mahatma Gandhi Birth Centenary Memorial Award in 2000 and a State Award from the Andhra Pradesh Crafts Council in 2002.

Does Arts Bespoke have works by Ramesh Gorjala?

Yes. The house currently offers 7 works by Ramesh Gorjala, priced from INR 1,85,000. Each is listed with its medium, dimensions, history and price.

How do I buy a work by Ramesh Gorjala?

Write to Client Advisory at clientadvisory@artsbespoke.com or use Get in touch. The price shown is the whole price, with no buyer's premium and no deposit to enquire.

Enquiries

Begin with a conversation

Looking for a particular period or subject by Ramesh Gorjala? Tell the house what you are after.

Write to Client Advisory

Speak to the house

Buying and private salesMr. Shyam Babu Naidu+91 70212 36700WhatsApp
Exhibitions and viewingsMr. Yashwant Naidu+91 98674 36486WhatsApp
Artists and curationMr. Prakash Bal Joshi+91 98690 14555WhatsApp
The FounderMs. Sonu Agarwal+91 75062 45556WhatsApp
The Chairman's officeMr. Ashwin Agarwal+91 93230 05554WhatsApp
Client AdvisoryMr. Arnav AgarwalGet in touchWhatsApp

Ramesh Gorjala, in film

AB / FILM

Works from the house

AB / WORKS

Kiran, A seated winged creature before a field of ink: a square abstract of white, black and saffron, with a pale seated winged creature and a red crest set against a deep brown-black mass.

Abstract

A seated winged creature before a field of ink

Kiran. A square canvas divided into fields: bare white at the top, a great brown-black mass of ink-like paint in the centre, and a block of saffron orange below and to the right.

Thota Vaikuntam, Telangana lady, 2004: a seated woman with an olive-green face, red bindi, stacked gold bangles and a black sari dotted with white, on a cream ground.

Figures & portraits

Telangana lady

Thota Vaikuntam. A woman of Telangana sits close to the front of the picture, drawn in flat, confident shapes.

A square Kalamkari style painting: a teal green face in profile with a white tilak; inside it Shri Krishna Ji plays the flute among cows, with devotees at upper left, a white paisley panel and a brown feather panel at the right.

Devotional & narrative

Krishna in profile, turquoise and gold

Ramesh Gorjala. A teal green face in profile, the eye lit with gold, rises beside a white paisley panel and a brown feather panel.

Kiran, The Buddha between flame and cloud: a square painting of a grey Buddha head and shoulders beside a red panel, with a glowing flame at the lower left and dark storm clouds above.

Devotional & narrative

The Buddha between flame and cloud

Kiran. A calm, closed-eyed Buddha, painted in cool greys with a finely modelled head of tight curls, sits at the right in an olive-gold panel.

All works Abstract Figures Devotional Landscape Ravi Varma Press stones