Creative Strokes of Six artists

HEXA Exhibition at Lionel Wendt from Nov 25-27  

Kasun

Hexa, an exhibition of paintings by six artists will be held at the Lionel Wendt Art Gallery from today, November 25 to 27. Presenting their various genres of art, painstakingly done during the Covid-19 lockdown, the six well-known painters feature exceptional styles that are unique to each of them.  
Interestingly the six artists represent completely different backgrounds from full-time painters, teachers, and academics to doctors.   

1-Shanaka Kulathunga

A renowned portrait artist practising his career with a passion for art, Shanaka is one of the pioneer painters in portrait painting to express a greater degree of emotional and spiritual expressions of humans through his expressive stocks and layers of colours. Humanity, compassion and emotions are the key pieces of his artistic language. Shanaka is a senior medical officer in the profession and an award-winning portrait artist.  

2-Prabath Samarasooriya

A designer and artist practising his career over 20 years locally and internationally with his signature talents in fashion, art, illustrations and design. Prabath’s expression of compiling his art is nature- humanity- radicalism, through his long-term involvement in fashion and design. Prabath experiments with composing and combining his multi-faceted compassion on a canvas. His recent work carries a powerful expression of beauty through the radical truth of socio-cultural factors through enigmatic symbolical meanings.  

3-Kasun Indikatihewage

A painter uses symbolical characteristic compositions in refined details to a hyper-realistic expression with the aid of graphite pencils. Socio-political trends and movements are the main topics for his artistic signature. Kasun discusses the complexity of “human-kind with over-consumerism” under his pencil tips to bring down “the sensitive and controversial movements of social-media influences to destroy the human needs to unsatisfied and isolated personalities”.  

4-Vimukthi Samaraweera

Vimukthi is a multi-faceted artist who has experience in visual arts, contoured arts, graphics and interior designing. While using his fundamentals in graphics, Vimukthi experiments through expressive motions in blurry forms following deconstructive strokes to add an unexpected motion to still objects. Currently, Vimukthi is working on freelancer graphic and architectural projects while he is practising and experimenting with his creative language which became more   
discursive in recent times since some of his artwork describes a radical direction to interpret current socio-cultural issues.

5-Vikum Bandara 

After completing his higher studies, Vimukthi was established as an abstract expressionist to use total freedom to run the brush over the canvas to create the most significant and vibrant expressions via mixed media. He let the canvas build a dialogue between himself to create a poetic floor of hues, textures, and brush strokes. The utility of Vimukthi’s unique hues is “expressive” in terms of emotions, mirroring the freedom, and unexpected beauty is the signature of his art. Vikum is not only an artist but also a committed teacher who contributes his artistic passion to the next generation.  

6-Anupa Perera

A unique painter who takes the most challenging pathways through a “hyper-realistic” style to represent “object drawings” as fundamental pieces to create a dialogue between the art and the audience. Anupa has a very refined eye and tremendous patience which is mandatory to have for a “hyper-realistic” artist. His skills and passion are unbelievable. While he is disseminating his knowledge and skills ungrudgingly to the next generation he has chosen a remote area in the country, especially for the underprivileged community in the 
Northern area.  
The six artists believe that this exhibition would be a landmark in the history of group art exhibitions in Sri Lanka since art lovers would be able to experience a blend of six artists hailing from six different backgrounds and disciplines sharing their stories under one roof. 

Vimukthi

Vikum

Shanaka