Laxma Goud was born in Nizampur, Andhra Pradesh in 1940. He studied drawing and painting from the Government College of Fine Arts and Architecture, Hyderabad till 1963 and did his diploma in Mural painting and Printmaking at M.S. University, Baroda in 1965. A master draftsman, he displays his versatility over a range of mediums, from printmaking, drawing, watercolor, gouache and pastels to glass painting and sculpture in bronze and terracotta. Over the many years of his artistic career, he is known to have moved from one medium to another with élan. He lives and works in Hyderabad.