With his innate ingenuity and remarkable mastery in craft. Kumara Rathnayake turns complex ideas, thoughts and perceptions into lucid and multifaceted lines often in bright colours. His abstract paintings are unique not only in their complex diction’s, syntax of figures but for the sheer amalgam of diverse influence from equally diverse traditions of paintly.
In essence, they are visual feats for the eye for reflections on philosophical ideas of life. What strikes is the manifestation of his personality through his remarkable creations, which are universal at one level and truly a Sri Lankan at another level.
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Art is an individual’s search for identity. It is a most powerful and at the
Poised to take his paintings around the world, he is in the threshold of scaling the heights in contemporary painting. If Kumara Rathnayaka is not the leading artist in con temporary art, he is certainly one of the top few.
Gwen Herat
Sunday Observer
His abstract paintings are unique not only in their complex dictions, syntax of figures but for the sheer amalgam of diverse influence from equally diverse traditions of paintly.
Ranga Chandrarathne
Ceylon Today
Art is an individual’s search for identity. It is a most powerful and at the same time a universal language in which one reproducers one understanding and digestion of visual objects. Kumara in that respect, with his special styles carries a unique absorption of reality and an unmatched eloquence. His paintings cannot be categorized as abstract. They are neither modern nor traditional.
Ravi Deraniyagala
Daily Mirror
Rathnayaka turns complex ideas, thoughts and perceptions into multi-faceted lines often in bright colours. With no limit to the colours he uses, Rathnayaka makes sure that every work of art is different from one another, thereby making every masterpiece one of a kind.
Risidra Mendis
Ceylon Today