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Artist profile
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Giliyal Jayaram Bhat (b. 1958) was born in Puttur, Karnataka where he received his initial art training. He is an industrialist (BBM) and artist (BFA, MVA). He has conducted, participated in and led several successful art exhibitions while completing his BBM degree, winning many painting competitions in the late 1970s. He then moved to Mumbai for 5 years after college for work and during this time, he attended Bandra School of Art in 1980 and trained under Akshay Kumar Jha from 1981 to 82.

In 1983 he founded and established “Giliyal Industries” in Bangalore where he has successfully headed and run a Blowers and Blower Systems manufacturing factory for over 40 years now.

He received guidance and inspiration from renowned artists such as Sri G.S. Shenoy, Udupi, Sri P.S. Punchithaya, Kasargod and Sri V.B. Hiregouder, Mysore.

Since 2005, his paintings have been used on the covers of literature publications by Smt. Leela Mannala, a noted Kannada writer and novelist.

Jayaram’s work can be found in the permanent collection at Dr. Shivaram Karanth Art Gallery, Puttur and for sale at Chitrakala Parishat, Bangalore. His paintings are in private collections in India and abroad.

Art style
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He started his art career with realistic and hyper-realistic portraits, landscapes and still life. After his formal training in painting (BFA, MVA), he began experimenting with abstraction taking inspiration from his experience as well as his travels.

His obsession with colour and balance is reflected in his works of abstraction, bringing small and large canvases to life with its many stories and life-like rhythm.

More recently, Bhat has consciously departed from his realistic landscape and portraiture works to move into intense abstraction of the land and water that find him in his everyday life and during his travels.

He composes his canvases with uninhibited freedom letting the elements interact within themselves in the pictorial plane, creating balances, imbalances, breathing spaces and a burgeoning of possibilities for viewer involvement and interpretation.

 

His paintings have been exhibited in several successful solo shows and group shows in Bangalore, Mangalore, Mumbai, Dubai including at the prestigious Jehangir Art Gallery and Nehru Art Centre in Mumbai and Chitrakala Parishat in Bangalore.

Exhibitions
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  • Group show at Kalamandira, Mysore – 2008

  • ‘Varna Jagruthi’ group show, Moodabidri, Karnataka – 2010

  • ‘The Water Festival’ group show, Alliance Française, Bangalore – August 2010

  • Group show at Girinagar, Bangalore – September 2010

  • ‘Five is a perfect number’, group show at Chitra Kala Parishat, Bangalore – January 2011

  • ‘Vivid Life’, Solo show at Chitra Kala Parishat, Bangalore – September 2011

  • ‘April Blossom’, group show at Chitra Kala Parishat, Bangalore – April 2012

  • ‘The Water Festival’ group show, Alliance Française, Bangalore – August 2012

  • ‘The Colour Square’ group show, Chitra Kala Parishat, Bangalore- December 2012

  • Group show, Generation Art Foundation, Prince of Wales Museum, Mumbai- February 2013

  • ‘Chitra Parise’, Karnataka Lalitakala Academy, Ravindra Kalakshetra, Bangalore- March 2013

  • ‘Family Tree’, group show, Chitrakala Parishat, Bangalore – Nov 2014

  •  V3 Group show at CKP Bangalore- December - 2015

  • ‘Kudla Mela’ group show Mangalore – 2017

  • ‘River Festival’ group show, Mangalore – 2019

  • ‘Beyond Colors-4’, Shanker Art Foundation group show, Bangalore -2019

  • ‘Inner Sanctum’ group show, Jehangir Art Gallery, Mumbai, March 2020

  • ‘Reflections of the Mindscape’ Solo Show at Nehru Centre Art Gallery, Mumbai, March 2021

  • ‘Boundless’, Solo Show at Chitra Kala Parishat, Bangalore, December 2022

  • ‘World Art Dubai’ group show, Dubai, March 2023

  • ‘Palette of Perspectives’ group show, Jehangir Art Gallery, Mumbai, October 2023

 

Art Camps
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  • Varna Jagruthi, Mudabidri - 2010

  • Chithrakala Mela, Mangalore - 2013

  • Karnataka Veternary Science, Animal and Fisheries Science University, Kala Mela, Bidar- 2015

  • Karnataka Lalithakala  Academy Camp, Mysore - 2016

  • Chithra Siri, Moodabidri – 2017

  • Mathsya Varna, Fisheries College, Mangalore – 2019

 

Education
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  • Master of Visual Art (MVA) in Realistic Art and Painting from DMS LalithakalaMahaSamathana, Mysore (affiliated to KSOU) - 2012.

       Dissertation: Detailed study on the life and art of late artist GS Shenoy.

  • Bachelor of Fine Art (BFA) in Realistic Art and Painting from DMS LalithakalaMahaSamathana, Mysore (affiliated to KSOU) – 2009 (4th rank)

  • Bachelor of Business Management from MGM, Udupi- 1978

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