Kanaka Murthy hails from Thirumakudalu Narasipura and is born into a large culturally oriented family. Curiosity about nature and surroundings always tickled her mind even when she was a young child and she would keenly watch the housemaid sprinkling the front courtyard of her parents’ house with water and cow-dung paste and after neatly rubbing the same with a broom over which she would create various designs in white and colour marble powder — a daily chore in most of the Hindu homes.
As a first step in her sojourn of art she learnt about the various designs of ‘Rangoli’ art and this would tickle her mind as to why she could not create such designs in stone. As part of this voyage she started visiting the Somanathapur temple nearby as often as possible and her keen mind would open up her ambition to sculpt such figures in stone.
