Satya Narayan Lal Karn

Place: Ranti

Born: 1960

Biography:

Satya Narayan Lal Karn is an Indian Madhubani artist born in 1960 in Ranti, India. He is known for his expertise in Madhubani art, a traditional painting style from the Mithila region of India and Nepal. Karn is one of the artists who kept this ancient art form alive and passed it down from generation to generation in the families of the Mithila Region. He is associated with the Gram Vikas Parishad in Ranti, one of the major centres of Madhubani painting. Karn's paintings are characterized by their eye-catching geometrical patterns and are created using natural dyes and pigments with various mediums such as fingers, twigs, brushes, nib-pens, and matchsticks. His works often depict ritual content for particular occasions, festivals, and mythological stories.