Segar

Monotonous work in the accountancy department started to bore him. Segar started to design his own greeting cards purely based on the day to day lifestyle of Sri Lankans. His cards became an instant hit as most of the greeting cards in Sri Lanka were copied from the paintings of western countries. The art lovers who saw his cards wanted him to make large paintings. Hence, comfortably he became a painter. To give his art a serious impact Segar started experimenting the refractive effect of light in his abstract and figurative cubism. Tangent in geometry played a part in his drawings. His overlapping figures in his paintings was influenced by the Venn diagrams in Statistics. He loves to work in watercolor, oil and mixed media. In sculpture he works in steel. He has had one man exhibitions in Australia, England, India and Sri Lanka in addition to group exhibitions. Though his paintings sometimes depict gods and religion, he remains an atheist. His art has appeared in newspapers, documentaries and periodicals including Reader's Digest. Two of his paintings are in the permanent display in the National Gallery of Victoria Melbourne Australia in addition to the collections of several connoisseurs all over the world. His studio house was architectured by Asias leading woman architect Minette de Silva and listed in the Princeton University of architecture, New Jersey USA.

Oil paints, Canvas, Palette knife, Brushes, Linseed oil, Vegetable Turpentine, Handmade watercolor paper. A painting may take 10 minutes to 10 hours. I paint 4 or 5 paintings simultaneously.