P. Gnana, or Ponnusamy Gnanadickam in full, is a mechanical engineer-turned sculptor-artist. Eight months into arriving in Singapore to work in Shell, he quit to take up art at the La Salle School of the Arts, and was given a scholarship in 2002. With his Singapore-born wife Vidhya Gnana Gouresan, he set up The Gallery of Gnani Arts based in Singapore and the gallery is a regular participant of the International Art Expo Malaysia Plus. Figures and cows are replete in P. Gnana’s canvases and sculptures. This mask-like female face embellished with gold leaf strikes a regality of a dewi (goddess), like a female version of Lord Siva. Sacred cows also abound in his works, reminding him of the happy bovine in his hometown in Neyveli, Tamil Nadu. P. Gnana’s works are in the collection of the Singapore Art Museum and former Singapore president S.R. Nathan.