Sridar completed his BFA degree at Pondicherry College of Arts, and Masters Degree in Madras. It was in Madras, amidst the modernity and ambition of city life, that he realized his main inspiration belonged in the place most familiar and dear to his heart, amongst loved ones within the remote setting of his native village.

Sridar's paintings are full of emotional purpose and belonging. His figures austere appearances reflect the gritty nature of their agricultural livelihood, yet theirs closest of communities, the richest of lives and the softest of hearts. With an exquisite understanding of complementary colour, Sridar sublimely captures the essence of the relationship his figures share with their landscape. Applying pure colour in a simplified, non-naturalistic style, the gradual elimination of non-essentials and use of planes, shapes and boldly outlined colour; moulded within the compositions and disregarding their relationship with light and perspective.

Sridar's earlier works were painted on the spot in the vein of the Impressionists and recently, more through ‘Synthetist’ inspired techniques of painting from memory. Sridar is familiar with the works of ‘The Nabis’ who considered themselves the ‘pupils of Gauguin’, though he found his greatest inspiration in Chagal and especially Gauguin, who epitomized a 'primitive' ideal which would have naturally transposed upon Sridar’s background.

Contemporary art in Pondicherry is in the midst of a fascinating blend of French and Indian cultures. New life is flowing through the quintessence of Impressionism and Expressionism, transposed within the setting of present day India. Sridar is a forerunner and has inspired many an artist in Pondicherry towards a turn-of-the century chapter, kindling the essence of Impressionism within contemporary Indian art.

Sridar's earlier portraits, landscapes, and abstracts display a refined element of draughtsmanship and finishing. With his exploration of larger canvases and the spontaneity and immediacy it allows, the freedom of his brush and imagination has been unleashed. Sinuous and independent, his figures defy laws, delving into realms of unconformity and celebration while expressing their freedom. In recent paintings such as ‘Adam and Eve', Sridar courts the realms of Symbolism, and the ‘Spiritual’ approach as surfaced in works such as ‘The Vision after the Sermon’ by Gauguin.

Gauguin was drawn to Tahiti in search of paradise and in his works one can feel the sense of secrecy and whispered confidences, which Gauguin himself noted. Life on the island was lived in the open, though “intimate all the same, among the thickets and secluded brooks, where women whisper in an immense palace dressed by nature herself”. Ultimately, though, he felt that they lived in a world he could not fully enter. Within Sridar’s work one can glimpse a similar paradise from the standpoint of one entirely connected to its customs, his is an intimate and enchanting view from the inside of a culture rich in folklore, rituals and superstitions; timeless and mysterious.