Kumar Rathnayaka is well-known among artists of all calibres and has not looked back since he commenced his artistic career many years ago. Rathnayaka who comes from a rural background has become a popular name among artists due to his exceptional works of art. His exhibition Invisible Truth – Art Exhibition will be held at […]
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A dream come true to the local contemporary art collector, Kumar Ratnayake has a long journey ahead of him if he has set his sight at Christie’s. He needs the correct art exposure to the citadels on international art vendors but it is an area that Sri Lanka has not pursued. Sad, as it sounds
by Gwen Herat Poised to take his paintings around the world, he is in the threshold of scaling the heights in contemporary painting. If Kumar Ratnayaka is not the leading artist in contemporary art, he is certainly one of the top few. Endowed with abundance of talent, his brush has no limit when it starts
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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
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Alexey L. Shebarshi, the Ambassador for the Russian Federation was the chief guest at the opening of the exhibition of art and paintings by Kumara Rathnayaka at the Lionel Wendt Art Centre, Colombo 7 recently. Pictured here are Shebershi , guest of honor US Ambassador Robert Blake and RAvi Deraniyagala with artist Rathnayake on the
Daily Mirror (Sri Lanka) 29 Mar 2012 Kumara Rathnayaka, the reputed artist, who has exhibited his paintings in over twenty countries, held another one man painting exhibition at the Lionel Wendt memorial art Centre, Colombo 7 recently. Picture shows Seema Ilahi Baloch, the High Commissioner for Pakistan seen at the exhibition with the artist Kumara
With his innate ingenuity and remarkable mastery in the craft, Kumara to be blessed with Ratnayake , turns complex ideas, thoughts and perceptions into lucid and multi-faceted lines often in bright colours. His abstract paintings are unique not only in their complex dictions, syntax of figures but for the sheer amalgam of diverse influences from
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