Painter

Throughout his career Sekara produced over 100 paintings in various media such as oil on canvas and water colors. Most of them are currently not available. Some of the the paintings exhibited here were taken from The Times of Ceylon Annual ’69 magazine. Around thirty of his paintings were exibited at the Serendib Gallery in early 1970s. The whereabouts of those paintings and the ones which are not displayed here remain unknown. Sekara, in his paintings, did not attempt an analysis into the mechanics of form; instead, his creative bursts are born out of a few symbols like masks, plants, boats which make strong impressions; and the familiar voluptuous imposing curves are replaced by extremely simplified outlines.