‘Beyond the Water Margin’ exhibition will be held with the participation of four artists, representing four eras, in Sri Lankan water colour art: Gunasiri Colambage, Basil Cooray, Sanjeewee Senevirathna and Nilusha Weerakkody. The four professional artists are exhibiting 80 paintings in four different styles and four themes.
The exhibition will begin on August 18 at 6 pm at the Lionel Wendt Art Gallery and will be open to the public on August 19, 20 and 21.
‘Art pieces’ are being created by the artists’ intellect, imagination, experiments, professional experience and consciousness, who indulge in creative work for their own independent and honest goals, solely and collectively. That is not an unconscious copying by pouring some matter into a block. It is a broad, complicated and sensitive process. And, it is not an artificial and impatient or a strained product. We believe, ‘ART’ is a social process of digesting of touching existing social and cultural mechanisms in a most authentic way, by a community with a broad appreciation.
‘Beyond the Water Margin’ is a creative effort of the four water colour artists who united for the need for a collective creative approach, with professionalism and a self-satisfaction for mutual understanding, maturity of attitudes, collectiveness and the unity of diversity. It stands as a visual communication of satisfied self-expression.