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I paint landscapes that do not exist. They are occupied hybrid spaces suspended between cultures. Horizons loosen, colours drift and forms remain only long enough to suggest a place you cannot name. Landscape functions here not as a location I am depicting but as an anchor to a familiar entry point into a space that resists possession
Although born in the UK, my cultural position has been shaped by intergenerational histories of migration and displacement. Growing up between a Sri Lankan household while navigating broader British cultural frameworks, I often felt unable to fully belong within either. The tension between collective expectation and individual autonomy became central to my perspective, shaping my understanding of identity as something negotiated rather than fixed.
In response, my paintings draw from fragments of diverse visual traditions, recombining compositional structures and spatial sensibilities into speculative terrains that resist singular cultural ownership. Through staining, dripping and the intentional exposure of raw canvas, I emphasise material instability and the fragility of the pictorial ground. The painting exists beyond coordinates, neither fully abstract nor recognisably real, embracing ambiguity as a space in which fixed identities and boundaries can momentarily disappear
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