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"Senanayake's paintings are gorgeously positive, his forests wearing saturated runway colours, his birds right out of an ancient fable. His style is often criticised as being purely aesthetic, but it is by no means emotionally inert. In fact, his work is an ironic reminder of the fading beauty of his world, a hope against hope that whatever is left of nature can be conserved. It is equal parts celebration, elegy and documentation of the fragile... "Senanayake's paintings are gorgeously positive, his forests wearing saturated runway colours, his birds right out of an ancient fable. His style is often criticised as being purely aesthetic, but it is by no means emotionally inert. In fact, his work is an ironic reminder of the fading beauty of his world, a hope against hope that whatever is left of nature can be conserved. It is equal parts celebration, elegy and documentation of the fragile rainforests of Sri Lanka." (V Shoba, "Senaka Senanayake: Life Is Beautiful," OPEN, 15 July 2016, online)

Senanayake is considered a child prodigy, whose work was first exhibited in Colombo when he was just a little boy, and he had a solo show in New York at the age of ten. As a teenager, he held exhibitions in Sri Lanka as well as Europe, the USA and Asia. He later studied Art and Architecture at Yale, and after this formal training in art, returned to Sri Lanka, where he continues to paint the spiritual beauty of his native forests.

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