 Vaniga Pathuma Dancer, 2004. Gouache on paper; 74cm x 54cm.
The artist's studio
George Beven has indeed, found it to be the 'Resplendent Isle' and his response to it has been a series of paintings, largely in gouache on paper, rich in colour and imbued with life.
They are a remarkable rendering of harmonies and movement, sometimes sedate, at others ecstatic: resplendent images to stimulate the heart and mind.
| George Beven: A Life in Art
... as a newspaper illustrator and fashion designer, as an innovative painter in oils on rush mats, as the fabricator of monotone portraits, as a travel guide whose encounter with new and wonderful vistas in the East was to lead to his rediscovery of the infinite variety and splendour of
Sri Lanka.
 George Beven with his monotone portrait of Princess Margaret, 1975. Indian ink sprayed with tooth-brush on paper, 94cm x 73cm.
Now at Kensington Palace, London |