Born in Quilon, Kerala, he is the recipient of Award of the Academy of Fine Arts, Kolkata, award of the Hyderabad Art Society, the Madras state Lalit Kala academy award, National Award of the Lalit Kala Academy, New Delhi, and the senior fellowship of the Ministry of Human Resource Development, Government of India. He has represented India at the artists’ camp at Asilah, Morocco. He is well known for his works at the ‘Asia Today’ exhibition in Milan, Italy and ‘Nature and Environment’ exhibition in Prague, Czechoslovakia.