DRUVINKA      (b.1971   Sri Lanka)

Druvinka,  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 has successfully and uniquely adapted  the ancient tempera technique used in Indian miniature painting  to a contemporary format. Working with acrylic washes, bamboo paper and canvas/cloth, she incorporates symbols of the psyche such as lingam, circles, buds and silhouettes.

Professor S.B. Dissanayake, art critic,  comments:

“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

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Major Exhibitions

2008		Sri Lankan & Malaysian Contemporary at  Asian Art Week, New York, with SGFA, The Private Gallery at The Haughton Fair
2007		Island Vision, Lamont Gallery, Phillips Exeter Academy, NH, USA, April 2007 Serendipity, Asian Art Week New York , SGFA -The Private Gallery at Arts of Pacific Asia Sri Lankan Contemporary Art III, SGFA, The Private Gallery, Malaysia
2006		Serendipity in New York, WaterMoon Gallery, New York and  SGFA, The Private Gallery Sri Lankan Contemporary Art II, SGFA - The Private Gallery, Malaysia
2005		Colours of Karma, Nehru Centre, London,  curated by SGFA -The Private Gallery Solo Exhibition, Barefoot Gallery, Colombo, Sri Lanka
2004		Sri Lankan Contemporary Art,  SGFA - The Private Gallery, Malaysia Solo exhibition, Swing Gallery, Mysore, India Solo Exhibition, Barefoot Gallery, Colombo, Sri Lanka
2003		Sri Lankan Contemporary Art,  SGFA- The Private Gallery, Malaysia Solo exhibition, Barefoot Gallery, Colombo, Sri Lanka
2002		Sri Lankan Contemporary Art,   SGFA- The Private Gallery, Malaysia Solo exhibition,  Barefoot Gallery, Colombo, Sri Lanka
2001		Sri Lankan Contemporary Art,  SGFA- The Private Gallery, Malaysia Solo exhibition , 706 Gallery,  Sri Lanka Group exhibition,  Mysore Mandala, Mysore India
2000		Karmic Life Forces,  Solo exhibition,  706 Gallery,  Sri Lanka
1999		Solo exhibition,  706 Gallery, Sri Lanka Group Exhibition, Nandan Art Gallery,  Kala Bhavan, Viswa Bharati, Santiniketan, India Millennium Art Collection,  2000 Foundation, the Netherlands
1998		Solo Exhibition,  Heritage Art Gallery, Sri Lanka Installation group work,  We Are International,  London, UK Refugee, Solo exhibition, paintings and etchings,  706 Gallery, Colombo, Sri Lanka Choreographed performing art recital at exhibition The Refugee series,  solo exhibition at the Barefoot Gallery, Colombo, Sri Lanka
1997		Group Exhibition,  Heritage Art Gallery,  Sri Lanka
1996		Solo exhibition,  706 Gallery,  Sri Lanka
1995		Group Exhibition,  Nandan Art Gallery - by Kala Bavan, Viswa Bharati, Santiniketen, India
1994		Exhibition of Young Contemporaries, George Keyt Foundation, Sri Lanka New Approaches in Contemporary Art in Sri Lanka,  the British Council at the National Art Gallery, Sri Lanka Young Contemporaries of Sri Lanka, Paris, France Young Contemporaries exhibition , Alliance Francaise,  Sri Lanka
1993		Solo exhibition of paintings at Lionel Wendt Art Gallery,  Sri Lanka International Exhibition of paintings and sculpture, National Art Gallery, Calcutta, India
1990		Solo exhibition of paintings/ drawings,  Galadari Meridian Hotel, Sri Lanka

Education

1998		MFA- Painting ,  Kala Bhavan, Viswa Bharati, Santiniketan, India
1990 - 1995		BFA (Hons) First Class- Painting Kala Bhavan, Viswa Bharati, Santiniketan, India