Badami Series

About JMS Mani (1949-2021)

Born in 1949 in Bangalore, Karnataka, JM Subramani, commonly known as JMS Mani, is a highly acclaimed artist. He began learning art in 1974 at Kuvempu Kala Sanstha Ken School of Art, under the tutelage of the school’s founder, RM Hadapad, with whom he developed a deep-rooted bond that influenced his art tremendously. Over the course of his career, JMS Mani experimented with nature-based abstraction and expressive gestural abstraction. He...