Spotlight on : Sculpt in Time Who : Balan Nambiar Significant Contemporary Artist of our times He has won these awards: National Award of the Lalit Kala Academy (1981), Karnataka State Lalit Kala Academy Award (1980) to Kerala's highest state award, the Raja Ravi Varma Puraskaram (2015) Conducts free art classes at NGMA on Sundays Where : At the National Gallery of Modern Art (NGMA) Why: His drawings, with pastels and conte, and paintings from 1957 onwards...The first painting displayed - My room (1962) - is a beaut. Very Van Gogh. His sculptures, in stainless steel (contains chromium, non magnetic) and mild steel (contains carbon), are precisely designed, some following the Golden Mean Ratio, and laser cut. See the Rice Plant - his first stainless steel sculpture - conch ( Valampiri Shankha ) and his 3D Shree Chakra . These are abstract renditions of traditional motifs. Table top sculptures of cacti - cute. His jewellery enamel art, the reds, blues