Education
Sculpture Diploma Course from Fine Arts College, Chennai - 1960
Slade School of Art, London - 1965.
Sculpture Diploma Course from Fine Arts College, Chennai - 1960
Slade School of Art, London - 1965.
He is the Former Chairman of the Lalit Kala Academy. lieutenant was conferred by Kerala"s Chief Minister Oommen Chandy at Thiruvananthapuram. Recently, two of his creations, Melathara and Kalithara, were inaugurated with accompaniment from a violin concert by L. Athira Krishna in Quilon Sopanam Complex, Kerala.
Kanayi was born on 25 July 1937 at Kuttamath in Kasaragod District of Kerala.
After completing his schooling, he passed the SSLC examination in 1957. By then he had already found his vocation.
He ran away from home when he was barely seventeen because the elders strongly disapproved of his creative pursuits. He felt stifled in the conservative atmosphere of the traditional joint family, where the primary role of the youth was to obey unquestioningly the instructions of the elders, predominantly the patriarch.