Vasan: Young Painter Activist.
Vasan, Susiman Nirmalavasan, is an outstanding young painter from Maddakkalappu (Batticaloa); Eastern Sri Lanka exhibits his talents with innovative ideas and imagination not only with colors and lines but also with materials strange to the art of painting. He is a different kind of artist who can make journeys with his medium of art from Galleries to the shadows of trees in the villages as Artist A. Mark and his tribe.
Vasan is always inventing ways and means to express different and strange experiences of the oppressed. That leads him create paintings beyond two dimensional. His paintings are sculpturesque and performative.
Vasan is mostly engaging in to bringing out creative expressions of children through the medium of painting. He is energetic painter activist.
S.Jeyasankar
15.11.2006
