What sets Devulapalli apart is the spiritual foundation beneath everything he makes. His practice is inseparable from his daily meditation and yogic discipline, ideas do not come to him at a desk but in stillness, rising slowly out of a contemplative inner state before finding their way onto the canvas.
Hanumantha Rao Devulapalli was born in 1963 in Hyderabad and is one of the more quietly compelling voices in contemporary Indian art. His path to the canvas was an unconventional one, he spent the better part of his early career working in advertising, before stepping away from it entirely in 2010 to devote himself fully to art. It was a courageous pivot, and one that had clearly been a long time coming.