Ruwan Prasanna

ARTIST BIO

Ruwan Prasanna's paintings demonstrate a simplicity animated by his expertise in capturing the transitory interplay of light and color in nature, as well as the artist's lyrical sense of color inherited from the Post-Impressionists. The thick and obvious impasto of the paint brings emphasis to the texture of Ruwan's work, playing with the viewer's tactile senses. Feeling and ephemerality are central to the artist’s work. He places atmosphere at the forefront, distancing himself from the tired figurativeness of traditional landscape painting. Ruwan Prasanna (b. 1980, Sri Lanka) graduated from Vibhavi Academy of Fine Arts - Institute for Sri Lankan Art, Kotte, Sri Lanka in 2013. He work has been exhibited at various solo and group shows at Paradise Road Galleries, Harold Pieris Gallery, the George Keyt Foundation and Saskia Fernando Gallery. His works belong to important local and international private collectors including the Galle Face Hotel, Paradise Road, Taru and Villas.

CONCEPT

Ruwan Prasanna explores the colours unseen to the naked eye, that greet the earth at the break of dawn. Prasanna reworks the surface of the ginger jar with spontaneous and gestural strokes of pulsating, vivid colours.