This sharp division of ideas is reflected on the walls – stark monochrome images on one hand with bright primary colors on the other.

A combined exhibition of paintings by Nelun Harasgama and Chaminda Gamage at the Barefoot Gallery brings together two very different mindsets. Harasgama in the introduction to her work emphasis on the quality of suffering: “suffering is all around us” while Gamage sounds more abstruse: “the combination of entirely incompatible entities, sometimes, drives for the success. For easy understanding, we say it is black and white.” This sharp division of ideas is reflected on the walls – stark monochrome images on one hand with bright primary colors on the other. Both are artists with long track records, their careers going back to the 1980s and ’90s. This is bio-data, no more, but it is there for the record. Not all painters improve with time-some do some don’t.