Map of the Mind - IV Painting

VAJIRA GUNAWARDENA (Born 1971), is an SRI LANKAN awards winner painter. He received a BFA degree at the state art school in Colombo. He has taken twenty-five years of working experience in his realm. He has held numerous solo and group exhibitions locally and internationally and was selected for the numerous international artist workshops. His works have many private and co-operate collections worldwide in the UK, USA, Australia, HOLLAND, Netherlands, France, Sweden, Belgium, Denmark, Italy, Dubai, Singapore, CHINA, Malaysia, Thailand, Vietnam, Pakistan, India, Maldives, Iran and Sri Lanka. Vajira’s paintings have a sociological mix of sensuous human emotions and autobiographical and critical views. He is working in a range of styles to create large-format, figurative semi-abstract paintings. His artwork expressed according to some within the outsider art movement ... while some say neo-expressionism with a cartoon influence. His works addressed issues and questions about culture and identity is exploring human imperfections or unseen aspects of humanity. Internal human discourse collapsed in the new global world of market society. He has followed characters of living people in a contemporary material culture considered as symbolized human emotions. His works on images and symbol promote diversity, deconstruction, and the fractioning of subconscious memories. Vajira was purposed to create a multi-dimensional work treating both narrative and form as one. He considered a survey of a new language of art, interest in bright colors, rhythmic patterning, expressive figurative imagery, and developments in experimental techniques combined to offer a new visual format that seeks to communicate a fully expressionistic borderless painting.