DRUVINKA

Druvinka (1971), painter and printmaker, trained in Santiniketan where she received a First Class in the Bachelor of Fine Arts. Her work has been exhibited extensively in India, Sri Lanka, Malaysia, and throughout Europe, where she has a loyal collector base. Druvinka's works were featured in Serendipity in New York during New York's Asia Week 2006 and the Colours of Karma exhibition, at the Nehru Centre, London in February 2005.

Professor S.B. Dissanayake writes

“Druvinka’s art is a self-generated, self-propelled aesthetic… It is a total gallery of experience for viewers. They do not meditate on these pictures individually. They go home to think about them. First of all, the technical accomplishments, then on the subject matter….The figures are among shadows united by feelings of isolation. They exude a sense of being brought on to a stage, to a suspended reality in a state of weightlessness, fumbling for something archetypal.”

“One of the essential features in modern art has been the attempt by various and often contradictory means to deepen and clarify the creative act which had become obscured and stifled by tradition. My work displays freedom through colour, form, line and symbols. Whether I open or close my eyes to the outside work, I do not draw a single line on brush strokes without striking a deep chord with the reality of nature and its earliest beginnings.” Druvinka

Druvinka has adapted  the ancient tempera technique used in Indian miniature painting  to a contemporary format . Working with acrylic washes, bamboo paper   and canvas/cloth, she creates works that incorporate or allude to  symbols of the psyche such as lingam,  circles,  buds and silhouettes. She  prefers creating larger works,  sizes varying from 5' x 6' to 15' x 5'.

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