Nalin Indrasena

Nalin A Indrasena is a contemporary artist who works in cold wax and oil mixed media. Nalin has studied pre-classical and classical Western art, guided by Nalini Silva, his aunt, and a well-respected art teacher in Sri Lanka. During his career as a technologist with the United Nations, his travels to numerous war-stricken countries allowed him to witness their historical legacies through what remains as ruins and artifacts organically evolved. He responded to such experiences with intense curiosity and visionary inspiration. Nalin started painting his abstract experiences of what he saw and remembered of those places. Being passionate about abstract expressionism, Nalin uses cold wax to bring out extraordinary energy from his mind in the form and content of his paintings, as well as the layers that are activated on the surfaces that can be scratched back to uncover historical layers and perspectives. Cold wax and oil paint bring out unusual textures, expressions, and surface subtleties and offer the possibility of painting contrasting markings and working with aberrations on the painted surface itself. Having worked in a variety of media since childhood, he found that cold wax and oil mixture is undoubtedly an exciting painting med...

Two 5-day Workshops in Drezzo, Italy on Cold Wax and Oil Paint (Mixed Media) contemporary painting

1 Year online Workshop on Contemporary Art (Art2Life).

Master of Science (MS), Policy and Management, USA.

Bachelor of Technology (BTech.), Aeronautical engineering, and Design (Hons.), UK.

2021 – TALKING WALLS, Heritage Geneve Gallery, Geneva, Switzerland, Dates will be announced soon.

2019 – LUMINOUS EMPTINESS, Barefoot Gallery, Sri Lanka, 3 October - 8 November 2019

1998 – ABSTRACTIONS OF TOPOGRAPHY, Baghdad, Iraq, at the Canal Hotel (UN Oil for Food Program)

1996 – EXPRESSIONS, Zagreb, Croatia, at the United Nations Protection Force (UNPROFOR)