An Exhibition of Paintings

Sri Lankan artist Suwanitha Senanayake will present yet another exhibition of her work, “Inspiration on Canvas’’ with an impressive collection of 50 + paintings at the Lionel Wendt Art Gallery on November 2nd, 3rd and 4th.

As a painter of many years in drawing, splashing and experimenting, she has ventured from canvas to mixed media combining oil paint, cloth, paper, jute, and wood adding unusual combinations of textural appeal.

As a child prodigy, Suwanitha’s paintings received recognition from her early years being selected for grade Art Prizes every year as a schoolgirl. Her paintings were selected by the Education Department to adorn the cover of a textbook. Since then she took great pleasure in developing her unique style as a painter and this included completing twenty paintings for her hotel in Kandy.

Her work will showcase delicately painted flowers, women in strikingly different attire or birds of different species. All of these are predetermined but the painter allows for the concept to develop spontaneously. A notable unique feature of her work is that she rarely engages in paintings depicting sadness or pain unless in a very abstract sense. To this extent her work is a form of escapism from the reality of a harsh and callous world.

Suwanitha remembers with gratitude her childhood art Teacher Ms. Cora Abraham and her one time neighbour Mrs. Lateefa Ismail who guided, inspired and advised her to stage her first exhibition.

Her objective is to teach the art of painting to students in villages using basic materials. Part proceeds from this exhibition will be channeled to take care of children with heart ailments and to protect the wild elephant.

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