A series of works on paper; "Games We Play" is an introspective study of card and board games infused with tropical pop bravado of South Asian and Californian sensibility. As children, games teach us to risk, barter, and fearlessly communicate. We learn the price of winning and losing to relationships.

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The paintings in this collection are difficult for me to describe.
On my last visit I was left with an impression of a country in turmoil, being torn apart on a fundamental community level, yet still carrying on each day with the hidden stoicism so redolent in Sri Lankan life.

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By facing straight to the culture, the series of art works I have done was always connected to my “Daily Life”, which is an ultimate result of my personal feelings springs out from the social, political structure of modern life.

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“THE EYE OF THE BEHOLDER” |PHOTOGRAPHY |20.0” X 26.0”|INDIA/DECEMBER 2005


“A tree that can fill the span
Of a man’s arms
Grows from a downy tip;
A terrace nine stories high
Rises from handfuls of earth;
A journey of a thousand miles
Starts from beneath one’s feet.”

Lao Tzu

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Before moving to Sri Lanka I lived and worked for six years in São Paulo, Brazil where I exhibited at the prestigious Documenta Gallery and collaborated extensively with architects and interior designers in various art projects for home decoration throughout Brazil.

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“The experiences I have had while traveling up and down by train during the past few months gave me the main inspiration in brining out these creations.

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Beat Presser fulfilled a pledge after 30 years to accomplish a Photo documentary on Buddhism.

After an accident 30 years ago he has been unable to walk due to a spinal injury. The Buddhist monks of a close by monastery in Thailand had cured him enabling him to walk

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Her art inspires the most minute examination, and yet on the other hand it demands you to take a step back, and then another , to pull out and see , quite literally , the bigger picture, Paradoxical it might seem yet, that’s Druvinka for you. Fluid,profound , and many

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Cora de Lang- an enigma!


The Argentinean artist is bringing a wealth of cultural experiences to Sri Lanka, presenting new work as well as a retrospective collection of her art, which vividly demonstrates her scope and talent.

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This will be her ninth solo exhibition at the Barefoot Gallery. The exhibits are all oil on canvas and range from two large pieces spanning 60 x 42 inches to much more compact pieces spanning 12 x 10 inches Preethi’s painting style seems to transform with each new exhibition.

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For Druvinka, painting is her life. She thinks about it constantly, is obsessed by it. She is one of our most exemplary and exciting artists working today. She lives for art, absorbs it, is consumed by it.n my opinion,it’s this very obsession that sets her apart from her contemporaries.

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An exhibition and book of photographs taken in Sri Lanka & South India

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exhibiting
the work of hands
which have used
plants, clay, trees
for human life
from the beginning of time
on our
Isle de Seylan
Spice Route,
Indian Ocean

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Proposal

This special exhibition of Barefoot hand weaving is designed to highlight the connection between the young western culture of emerging new nations and the old worlds of Asia and Europe – exemplified by Australia and Ceylon.

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Alex Stewart is an exception. `Amongst his 32 works up on the wall, one is hard pressed to believe that there is not a painting there that will not speak to one viewer.Granted, some works will prove more popular. But, just walk round the exhibition

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Nelun has been painting ever since she can remember. As a young girl she attended classes at Melbourne Art School , founded by Cora Abrahim.

It was at the Melbourne ArtSchool that Nelun developed her skills, guided by her “wonderful teachers” , Latifa Ismail and Noeline Fernando. Ms. Ismail enjoyed

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PRESS RELEASE

Contact: Sri Lanka; Nazreen Sansoni artgallery@barefoot.lk
USA: Josephine Balakrishnan 510-524-6754 jo@josephinebalakrishnan.com

Mysteries and Miracles, a series of paintings by Josephine Balakrishnan, explores the parallels between mystery
detective novel and pilgrim’s progress.In these paintings the detective/pilgrim uncovers the mystery of the universe by searching for truth.

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Sri Lanka has produced several talented painters who specialized in many aspects of this fine art. Ranjan Aluwihare , who has specialized in street scenes, village life and landscape miniatures , is one of them .

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Veteran artist Dr. Sarath Chandrajeewa will hold his 05th solo exhibition “Path of Visual Art” at the Barefoot Gallery from the 07th to the 19th of June 2005. The exhibition will consist of drawings, paintings, sculpture & pottery which he has done over a period of time.

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“How large this time, Druvinka?” however much I reproach her about the size of her canvases lamenting that buyers do not have that kind of room in their houses, board rooms, Banks, anymore: Druvinka shrugs, grins and says “ I would love to just go larger and larger.

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Sybil Keyt

whose very early interest in painting took her to Cora Abrahim, the art-teacher in Colombo in the 1950s, was a foundermember of the Young Artists Group which grew out of Mrs. Abrahim’s art school, the Melbourne Art Classes.

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The Foreign Correspondents’ Association (FCA) of Sri Lanka is putting on display the photographs of five photojournalists who are its members - photographs taken over the many years of war as well as in the past two-and-a-half years of peace.

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The Colour of Stone


Druvinka’s most recent paintings imitate the colour of the rocky outcroppings of the mountains on the approach to Mysore city. To my thinking, these works fall into two broad categories:

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These paintings are a result of coming to Sri Lanka for the last 8 years. I love to people-watch, whether in the garden at Barefoot, on the streets of Kandy or just travelling around. In some of these paintings, I hope to have captured a few of such moments.

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The exhibition is brought to Colombo with the support of the The Netherlands Embassy. The opening is hosted by the Ambasassador of the Netherlands Mrs. Susan Blankhart-Berkouwer and Mr. Yke Berkouwer.

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Manoranjan Herath is one of the few Sri-Lankans working on sculpture.He has exhibited here and abroad since 1984. He won the President's Award in the year 2000. This scholarship enabled him to complete his Masters in fine arts in the College of Art University of New Delhi, India.

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When i paint,I have an abrupt and restless rhythm controlled by internal compulsion and concern for composition. I allow myself to be swept away, give myself to my image, which finall breaks to the surface transfigured with desire, metamorphosed by its immersion in a subconsciousness coloured by dreams.

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Robert Sedgley is a British Artist resident in Spain. He works in oil and watercolour.Robert returns for his fourth exhibition in Sri-Lanka. Entitled Trading Places it highlights his abiding interest indepictingshops, stores and commercial outlets of every description that have had such a popular reception in the past.

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Anup Vega, best described as a self- taught artist lives and works the idyllic Artist's life in the outskirts of beautiful Kandy. His paintings are figurative in style, his drawings marvellously executed. He is a devotee of Osho.

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An eclectic collection of Laki's recent works painted in Sweden, Orlando, and New-York. On October 27th please come to the Barefoot Gallery, to view Laki's work, have a glass of wine, listen to Jerome & Chico live on guitar, and perhaps, even buy a painting or two.

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Back in Colombo after four years, this exhibition is a collection of works done since 1999. All the elements are there to satisfy the most enthusiastic collectors. Come back soon for prices if you want to purchase.

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"I paint what I see. My subjects are usually things I believe won't be there for much longer. It makes me angry and sad, not because things don't remain the same in this changing world, but because they were here before us and it's where we come from."

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World Press Photo is an independent nonprofit organization, founded in the Netherlands in 1955.

It's main aim is to support and promote internationally the work of professional press photographers.
For the 2002 contest, 49,235 pictures were submitted by 4,171 photographers from 123 countries.

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The photographs in this selection represent work done during 2001 and 2002 a period in which I have found myself working in Sri Lanka, the UK, Georgia, Armenia and China.

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Preethi Hapuwatte is attracted to expressive colours and simple compositions. her paintings reflect her joy in life and the world around us in all it's splendour

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Since 2000, Pushpakumara's art has taken a conscious turn towards an expressionistic stance. The current body of works presented in this show exhibits the same use of pictorial elements, and treatment of subject matter as his 2000 But,the current works differ in several important aspects;collection.

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The colour of Gods, happiness and violence

Because I live a travelling existence, for my diary 2000 I was looking for something that was constantly with me. I wondered what my hands would tell me about their experiences of that year.

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