Siyamala

It is said to be the emerald island, located in southern India, Sri Lanka saw me born on January 15, 1989. My first glances were on a land of flamboyant colors and endowed with a dazzling nature. During my early childhood, I was nourished by the countless shades of color and sublime landscapes that surrounded me as well as the mythological stories that my grandmother told me and that I now love to transcribe through my works.

One day the departure for Europe will come, it will be France which will welcome us, happy chance which directed me to the cradle of Impressionism, a movement for which I pray with passion and which awakened in me the taste for painting.
During a visit to Giverny in the spring of 2001, I realized what I was made for. Before that day, as far back as I can remember, I drew lotuses incessantly without understanding the reason. It was on the Japanese bridge of Claude Monet's residence that I had the click, painting will be my life.

The painting workshops that I attended during my adolescence m made it possible to diversify the techniques, the materials used and to assert myself in the choice of colors and in the dreamlike character of my first paintings.

In 2009, I saw all the insensitivity and cruelty of man during the events of the civil war in Sri Lanka, this marked a turning point in my vision of the world but also in my approach to painting and my works.

My childhood ended, my spirit of independence pushed me towards the world of work and accounting studies. Only as the years go by, the lack of creativity on a daily basis will prove to be an increasingly heavy obstacle to my development, which is why it was at this precise moment that I decided that, as Claude Monet said so well, the color would be my daily obsession, my joy and my torment…

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