Mayank Kumar Shyam was born in 1987 in Bhopal. He is the son of renowned Gond artist Jangarh Singh Shyam. He has received the Madhya Pradesh State award in 2007. He has exhibited his works in Delhi's Art Alive Gallery,
Kolkata's Seema Art Galleryetc.
In the featured lot, Mayank has depicted the origins of life in the aquatic life. 'Life on Earth began in the sea..... branches of the tree form a net to represent life on earth and the fish represents life in water. All the five elements of nature- land, water, sir and fire are illustrated beautifully in this vibrant characteristic of the deep blue colour.

Gond is a form of Indian folk and tribal art named after the largest tribe of central India with the same name. The word Gond is a derivation of the konda word meaning green hill which consists of parts of Madhya Pradesh, Chattishgarh, Andhra Pradesh, Maharashtra, and Orissa. The inspiration behind Gond art is almost always nature and social customs represented through arepetitive patterning of dots and dashes. Each artist uses this patterning to create his or her own signature style while choosing colour schemes and subjects that are indicative of the communities they represent. The forest and its creatures are amajor theme in Gond art. The community's myths inspire artists to create images with a certain "royal" character, which it is perhaps possible to interpret as an artefact of a time when the Gonds ruled much of central India. The largeness of each creature and tree, irrespective of the size of the canvas, is related to this and to the reality of a landscape once densely populated with wildlife with which humans interacted closely. Today, Gond artists are able to mobilize this history to create awide variety of art that manifests specific forms of knowledge and experience, which they represent in identifiable pictorial styles. Gond art's repertoire of birds, animals and folklore are still a part of their animistic beliefs even as they travelfar from home.