Suda Eliya

Sri Lankan artist, Ivan Peries, was a founder member of the 43 Group along with George Keyt, George Claessen, Richard Gabriel, Aubrey Collette, and Manjusri Thero. Their 1943 manifesto sought to marry Western Modernism with indigenous contexts--ideals later adopted by India's Progressive Artist Group in 1947. Peries' evocations of the coastal fishing villages and landscapes from his native country reached a high point of development between the mid-1950s and 1960s. His paintings are remarkable for their structural precision yet they still retain an overall luminous quality.