Prakashan was born in India. He started to paint when he was six years old. It was the colorful natural scenes and ordinary people around him that attracted him to delve into painting. Currently, he lives in Oman, in the Middle East, engaged in teaching art and making paintings An Oman-based painter from Kerala, Prakashan Puthur, has won the prestigious Oman Fine Arts Society award for a stunning series of paintings inspired by the Sultanate.