Raghu Akula is an artist who paints from love of the living world and from urgency about what we are losing. Born in 1966, a distinguished graduate of JNTU Hyderabad's Applied Art program, his journey has taken him from landscape work toward an obsessive engagement with creatures and ecosystems at risk the birds, the butterflies, the forests that still exist but grow more fragile each year. His ...
Raghu Akula is an artist who paints from love of the living world and from urgency about what we are losing. Born in 1966, a distinguished graduate of JNTU Hyderabad's Applied Art program, his journey has taken him from landscape work toward an obsessive engagement with creatures and ecosystems at risk the birds, the butterflies, the forests that still exist but grow more fragile each year. His paintings burst with colour and detail peacocks, rare flowers, dense botanical forms rendered with both scientific care and lyrical passion across saturated acrylic surfaces. Yet there is melancholy running beneath this visual abundance. Each painting becomes an act of witnessing, a portrait of what endures but trembles on the edge of disappearance. The endangered species he renders are not mere subjects; they are presences demanding recognition, asking us to acknowledge what we are willing to let slip away. Through explorations like Strokes of Nature, Akula reveals the invisible threads binding human life to the wider natural world, while simultaneously mourning the recklessness that severs those bonds. His work asks us to truly see to recognise the intricate, irreplaceable beauty still present, still breathing, still requiring our protection and care.
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