Akkitham Narayanan received a Diploma in Painting from the Government School of Arts and Crafts, Chennai, India. He then studied at the Ecole des Beaux-Arts, Paris on a Government scholarship. He has won the Tamil Nadu State Lalit Kala Akademi Award thrice. He is the recipient of the IV International Festival of Painting Award, in Cagnes-sur-Mer, France. Narayanan's works have been exhibited widely in India and internationally. Akkitham Narayanan lives and works in Paris. Akkitham Narayanan was awarded the "K. C. S. Paniker Puraskaram" by Kerala Lalitakala Academy in 2009 "in recognition of his assiduous art practice that has won him and his country international acclaim". He studied art at the Madras College of Art and Craft. Under the tutelage of the painter K.C.S.Panicker his art philosophy was truly shaped. He realized the limitation and possibilities of the intended 'indigenous art lingua'. He also studied monumental art under Mr Jean Bertholle and engraving under Mr Lucien Couteau The artist oversees the picture plane with a classification of space through lines, angles, squares, rectangles, and so on. There is a clever use of colour within each space, which may be amorphous and smudged in some areas, or sharp in others. The colour settles in the weave and lends the painting its texture. The technique thus lends a three-dimensional feel to the work. Collapsing the figures into minimal forms, he naturally arrived at the field of geometric patterns, forms, and shapes.