Dr. Ganesh Kelagina Beedu Shenoy is an award-winning author and an artist who is an Indian national residing in Qatar. In the year 2020, he set a world record for his artwork “Most miniature paintings on a small paper card”. He painted 1156 miniature paintings on a small paper card measuring 17 cm X 17 cm, and each miniature painting measures 0.5 cm X 0.5 cm, setting the world record for most miniature paintings ever painted on a small paper card. The same artwork was approved by the Golden Book of World Records as a world record in 2021.

 

In the year 2019, he had broken both India and Asia records in the field of fine art by creating 1029 miniature paintings on a single A4 paper card using colour pencils and acrylic colours. Ganesh Shenoy is the son of famous and well-known artists of South India, the Late K Pundalik Shenoy and the late Padmini Shenoy. Ganesh Shenoy was born in 1967 in Mangalore, India and educated in Kerala and Karnataka. Ganesh has a PhD in Human Resources Management and two Postgraduate Degrees, one in Social Work and the other in Human Resources Management. He is working as Human Resources Manager at Sodexo in Qatar. In 2021, he was conferred Honorary Doctorate for his national / world records by the World Record University, UK.

 

Right from his childhood he was interested in painting and has secured many prizes from school days to college. He is deeply interested in Religion, Philosophy, Occultism, Mysticism etc. He is a Freemason and also an active worker of the Theosophical Society. He regularly delivers lectures on fine art and spiritual subjects. His parents trained him in painting and as he progressed he developed a style of his own. He is using a variety of mixed media with colour impasto including herbal. He is following expressionism, Pointillism and mosaic style.

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I went through Ganesh's magnificent work of art with admiration. His world record for painting 1,156 images on a small paper card measuring 17cmX17cm is quite an achievement. His artworks consist of many beautiful subjects that could be used as an inspiration for others. I hope that he will continue to share his great … Read more

I went through Ganesh's magnificent work of art with admiration. His world record for painting 1,156 images on a small paper card measuring 17cmX17cm is quite an achievement. His artworks consist of many beautiful subjects that could be used as an inspiration for others. I hope that he will continue to share his great realizations with us. Way to go Ganesh!

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June 18, 2021