12 Watercolor Paintings by Artist Sandatharaka Abeysinghe

It is a common trait to all the artists to base his or her own experience in creative work. Sandatharaka is an artist who is nourished by the folklore and he emphasizes the authenticity of rural culture which is degrading with the impacts of the commercial world.
The natural environment is the narrative of Sandatharaka’s paintings which are minimized or almost going extinct in the face of modern urbanization.

He even tries to search the villager minimalized in the presence of massive nature instead of the minimalized urban man. It is clearly seen in his work, how the villager merges with the natural world without being a challenge to the system.

The method he uses to symbolize the broad and boundless natural space is to keep it almost free limiting only to a few brush strokes and a few color patches. The colors of human figures are skillfully merged with the tones in the background, witnessing his contribution as a part of nature.

EDUCATION

• 2014 – 2018 – BVA Special Degree in Painting in the University of the Visual and Performing Arts
  Colombo, Sri Lanka

AWARDS AND ACHIEVEMENTS

• 2019 – Under 30 Artist, Fabriyano in Watercolor, International Watercolor Exhibition, Fabriyano, Italy
• 2018 – Participation of Research Symposium, Faculty of Visual Art, University of the Visual and Performing arts
• 2018 – Watercolor Demonstration, State Lalith Kala Academy, Uttar Pradesh, Lucknow, India
• 2018 – Participation of India-Sri Lanka Ramayan Painting Camp, State Lalith Kala Academy, Uttar Pradesh, Lucknow, India
• 2017 – Participation of SAARC Artist Camp, Gokarna Forest Resort, Kathmandu, Nepal
• 2017 – State Art and Sculpture Festival, Final Round in Landscape Painting
• 2014 – Participation of SAARC Artist Camp, Bangladesh Shilpakala Academy, Dhaka, Bangladesh
• SOLO EXHIBITION

• 2019 – Rural Zone, Paradise Road Gallery, Colombo, Sri Lanka
• 2016 – Through the mist, JDA Perera Gallery, Colombo, Sri Lanka
• 2012 – Warna, Poramadulla Central Collage, Rikillagaskada, Sri Lanka

GROUP EXHIBITION

• 2019 – State Art and Sculpture Festival, JDA Perera Gallery, Colombo, Sri Lanka
• 2019 – India – Sri Lanka Ramayan Painting camp, State Lalith Kala Academy, Uttar Pradesh, Lucknow, India
• 2019 – Nawa Kala Karuwo, George Keyt Foundation, JDA Perera Gallery, Colombo, Sri Lanka
• 2019 – Fabriyano in Watercolor, International Watercolor Exhibition, Fabriyano, Italy
• 2018 – 1st International Watercolor Biennale, Kualalumpur, Malaysia
• 2018 – India-Sri Lanka Ramayan Painting camp, State Lalith Kala Academy, Uttar Pradesh, Lucknow, India
• 2018 – Beyond the Water Margin, Lionel Wendt Art Gallery, Colombo, Sri Lanka
• 2018 – Nawa Kala Karuwo, George Keyt Foundation, JDA Perera Gallery, Colombo, Sri Lanka
• 2018 – Fabriyano in Watercolor, International Watercolor Exhibition, Fabriyano, Italy
• 2018 – Kala Pola, Annual Open Art Affair, Colombo, Sri Lanka
• 2017 – SAARC Artist Camp, Gokarna Forest Resort, Kathmandu, Nepal
• 2017 – State Art and Sculpture Festival, JDA Perera Gallery, Colombo, Sri Lanka
• 2017 – Kala Pola, Annual Open Art Affair, Colombo, Sri Lanka
• 2016 – Kala Pola, Annual Open Art Affair, Colombo, Sri Lanka
• 2016 – Re-imagining Ceylon, Contempory Artist in Sri Lanka (Imago Mundi, Collection Of artworks)
• 2015 – Living with the Art, Sri Lanka Art Educationist’s Association, Kandy, Sri Lanka
• 2014 – SAARC Artist Camp, Bangladesh Shilpakala Acedemy, Dhaka, Bangladesh

RESEARCH AND PUBLICATIONS

• A study on the Watercolor medium usage in the Contemporary Art (based on few selected artists). Unpublished Dissertation (2019).
• Abstracts: Rural life against modernization (based on a practical project) (Submitted for the first Annual Student Research Symposium of the Department of History and Art Theory, Faculty of Visual Art, University of the Visual and Performing Arts) (2019).

MEMBERSHIP

• Internatinal Watercolor Society, Sri Lanka
  Saskia Fernando Gallery, Art Space Sri Lanka

Gallery

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Artist Sandatharaka Abeysinghe Website