Focus on: Sandatharaka Abeysinghe
Focus on Sandatharaka Abeysinghe Johnny Patramanis Sandatharaka is a highly skilled artist, with a passion for classical – traditional painting. His beauty is based on a calm simplicity and serenity, the clarity and purity of the world of his dreams and the absence of any striking effect. He is a wonderful painter, he works with skill where his works really give us an idea of the greatness of nature in its most romantic form. Katerina Christou My first thought when I saw Sandaratharaka’s work was how beautifully his figures interact with the nature that surrounds them. His paintings give a sense of balance, a union between the often small scale human presence and the vast, atmospheric scenery around them. The people he paints don’t dominate the scene as one usually sees in figurative artworks, instead they seem to belong there, almost like an ethereal form of wildlife which the viewer can only catch a glimpse of from a distance. We both think that Sandatharaka is a well established