S A D H U   I I I

"If there is one place on the face of earth where all the dreams of living men
have found a home from the very earliest days when man began
the dream of existence, it is India.

- Romain Rolland
French Scholar

E Y E S  I V

...ink on paper (A4)...used a my beloved Rotring .20 for this one...well my only pen!

"We owe a lot to the Indians, who taught us how to count, without which no
worthwhile scientific discovery could have been made."

-Albert Einstein

N I H A N G

...watercolour on paper

"India is the cradle of the human race, the birthplace of human speech, the mother
of history, the grandmother of legend, and the great grand mother of tradition.
Our most valuable and most astrictive materials in the history of man
are treasured up in India only!"

- Mark Twain

S T U D Y

...acrylic on canvas...spent a long time on this one


"Civilizations have arisen in other parts of the world. In ancient and modern times,
wonderful ideas have been carried forward from one race to another...But mark
you, my friends, it has been always with the blast of war trumpets and the march of
embattled cohorts. Each idea had to be soaked in a deluge of blood..... Each word
of power had to be followed by the groans of millions, by the wails of orphans,
by the tears of widows. This, many other nations have taught; but India for
thousands of years peacefully existed. Here activity prevailed when even
Greece did not exist... Even earlier, when history has no record, and
tradition dares not peer into the gloom of that intense past, even from
until now, ideas after ideas have marched out from her, but every word
has been spoken with a blessing behind it and peace before it. We,
of all nations of the world, have never been a conquering race,
and that blessing is on our head, and therefore we live....!"

- Swami Vivekananda
Indian Philosopher

E Y E S  V

ink on paper....

"India conquered and dominated China culturally for 20 centuries without ever
having to send a single soldier across her border!"

- Hu Shih, former Ambassador of China to USA

T R I B A L  O F  I N D I A

acrylic on paper....

"Endless are the harmonies played by the minstrels; the players prepare endless
tunes and measures to sing to Thee, 0 bountiful Creator. Thy Light is within
the beings and the beings are all within thy Light..."

- Guru Nanek
excerpt from The Morning Prayer

~Santhosh

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© Santhosh Pai, 2006 All Rights Reserved

ABOUT THE ARTIST

Santhosh Pai resides in the beautiful and spiritual Karnataka, India, and loves it there.  He is a student of art studying under Mr. Ramesh Rao, a prominent artist in India, in his school Drishya. For the past five or six years now Santhosh has been exploring his talents in all mediums, even moving beyond traditional art with oils and acrylics, to include photography and digital art.

Santhosh has exhibited his work in two Southern India exhibitions and quite a few local ones.  He also has had the honor to participate in two Southern India art camps.  Santhosh has a "developing" interest in spirituality and loves to paint portraits, figures and mostly sadhus.

You may contact Santhosh via email by clicking here. You may see a few more wonderful pieces of his gallery of artwork by clicking here.