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 equally diverse traditions of paintings. In assaoce they ara visual feats for the eye and food for reflection s 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 Sri Lankan at another level.
By Ranga Chandrarathne
