Nelun Harasgama

Nelun Harasgama has painted, since the 1980s, in a register of sombre restraint unusual in Sri Lankan art. Her work runs to minimal, often near-white surfaces given to themes of suffering, waiting and quiet endurance, as in the oil Waiting Long.

She has shown at the Barefoot Gallery in Colombo, in exhibitions such as Walking on the Water and A Division of Ideas. Where much painting of her time reached for colour and incident, hers holds to stillness and a spare, meditative mood.

Sources

1. Sri Lanka Foundation. ‘A Division of Ideas by Nelun Harasgama and Chaminda Gamage’. https://www.srilankafoundation.org/newsfeed/a-division-of-ideas-by-nelun-harasgama-and-chaminda-gamage/
2. The Sunday Times. ‘Joyous Drapes.’ 2013. https://www.sundaytimes.lk/131103/magazine/joyous-drapes-67421.html
3. Bandaranayake, Senake, and Albert Dharmasiri. Sri Lankan Painting in the 20th Century. Colombo: National Trust of Sri Lanka, 2009. https://thenationaltrust.lk/books/sri-lankan-painting-in-the-20th-century/