Indelible impressions of the rich folklore of GOBICHETTIPALAYAM, the hometown of A.V.Ilango, which is a bustling borough amidst verdant paddy fields, blue mountains and meandering irrigation canal. Inspired by the jostling crowds, street vendors, pilgrims and local people of Madurai (the epicentre of Dravidian culture and arts), the artist synthesized the folk idioms with interesting elements of the classical temple art and architecture, to essay drawings and paintings. Years of idyllic paintings and drawings of the languid or exuberant rural people at work, at rest and in celebration are now followed by urban themes.

The sensibilities of the urban life in South India are brought out in his imaginative compositions of cycles, cycle rickshaws and autorickshaws, lorries, bullock carts and swanky automobiles with jostling crowds.

Noted for his "RHYTHM" series of folk dancers and musicians, A.V. Ilango's "DANCING LINES" emanate the joyous emotion, the powerful sinews and the graceful stances of the folk artistes. The colours are earthy and warm in bold contradictory compositions or in refreshing analogous tones. With numerous solo and group shows in India, Singapore and at the Commonwealth Institute, London to his credit the artist was selected for a Visitorship Program in November 1992 by the British Council Division of Madras. Orient Longman Ltd., invited him to illustrate their prestigious publication in October 1997, "SILAPATHIKARAM AND MANIMEKALAI" transalated and retold by Lakshmi Holmstrom.