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Sri Lankan artist of worldwide fame

Jayasiri Semage is an artist who needs no factitious introduction. For the few decades past his paintings, ranging from postcards to gigantic creations of over 40 feet in length adorning the entrances to extensive exhibition parks etc, in various parts of our island, have been highly acclaimed. Three of his work in oil 300x260cm in dimension and depicting the Esala pageant (perahara), in Kandy and Sri Lankan rural scenes are on permanent display at the large 'Cinnamon' Hall in Melbourne, Australia.

That happens to be the only place in Australia where his works are exhibited. And that city has the largest concentration of Sri Lankans who are thus provided with an opportunity of experiencing art of their beloved land reminiscent of the soft shades and rhythmic curves of the Sigiriya paintings.

Semage has held several one man exhibitions in other countries, as well as at the main hall of the UN Centre in Geneva. His painting 'Hands that protect the motherland' is on permanent display. At the Sri Lanka embassies in Stockholm, Manila and the headquarters of the People's Bank in Colombo too are more such canvases.

At two outstanding overseas Buddhist temples - one, the Sri Lanka Vihara at Lumbini, Nepal (the site of the Buddha's birth) and the other the Mangala Vihara, Singapore, Semage has executed extensive mural painting depicting scenes from the life of the Buddha. At home in Sri Lanka, he painted the walls of Sri Piyarathnaramaya with similar paintings just about a year ago.

Semage has always retained his individual style of painting. "I never resorted in the name of modernity to the meaningless scratches on canvas and deceive the viewer with dazzling title as some untalented painters do," Semage said. When it comes to colours, Semage seems to be just second to nature herself. His choice of pigments can hardly be improved upon and more he uses them with delicacy with his brush caressing the canvas, as it were, that a search for garishment would be in vain. Each gentle shade blends into yet another in the same soft pleasing rhythm of his curves that one's eye could glide over them with the same daintiness as the artist's own caress.

Art to Semage is a painstaking disciplined activity attainable through spiritual and technical coordination coupled with inborn talents. A foreign art critic once commented after viewing one of Semage's paintings. "It's like sipping a cool and refreshing glass of beer."

The themes are either refreshingly romantic or soothingly spiritualistic. He paints on the themes of love, innocence of nature, beauty and spirituality.

 

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