Imashi Jayasinhe
Portraiture · Figure · Light
Lives and works in Minuwangoda, Sri Lanka
Biography
Imashi Jayasinhe is a Sri Lankan artist working in realistic portraiture and figurative art. Her practice moves between acrylic painting and monochrome drawing, and across both she returns to the same subject: the human face, and what it gives away.
Jayasinhe is drawn to expression, emotion and the small details of a person's features. She works patiently with light, shadow and texture, building up depth until a likeness becomes something more than a likeness, a sense of character and presence held on the surface.
Still developing her practice, she continues to explore new materials and techniques while keeping the human figure at its centre, treating each portrait as a close study of how light shapes the way we see one another.