New Profile for Noeline Fernando

Noeline Fernando

37 3/6 Templers Road Mount Lavinia

fernandonoeline@yahoo.com

+94 77 3827751

1965     Joined Melbourne Art Classes- Principle- Mrs Cora Abraham, Exhibited with the school

1967     A member of the Young Artisit Group, Exhibited with the group

1970     Exhibited in Montreal at The Man & His World exhibition expo 1967 site

           Solo exhibition at the Samudra Gallery Ceylon Tourist Board

1971     Exhibited at The Septieme Biennale de Paris

1972     Exhibited and received Certificate of Merit by The Arts Council, Sri Lanka

1973     Solo Exhibition at the Samudra Gallery

1986     Exhibited and received Certificate of Merit by The Arts Council, Sri Lanka

1991     Solo Exhibition at the Lionel Wend Art Gallery

           The George Key Foundation in association with Ramada Renaissance

           Open Studio Classes in Life drawing at the Heatherly school of Fine Art, Chelsa, U.K

Art Teacher, SOS Children’s village International, Sri Lanka, St Bridgets Convent Primary School Colombo 7, Ladies’ College Colombo 7, School for the Special Child, Chithra Lane Colombo

1994     The George Key Foundation in association with Ramada Renaissance

            Exhibition at 706 Gallery

1995     Lalitha Kala, SLECC

2000     Exhibition with The George Key Foundation

            Exhibition at 706 Gallery

2002     International Artist org by the George Keyt Foundation

2005     Exhibitions- Gandhara Gallery

2006     International Women Artist

2007     Association of Women Artisits org by the Vibari Academy, Lionel Wendt Gallery

           Visual Arts Biannual Sri Lanka

2008     Exhibitions- Sapumal Foundation

           World open Art Festival International exhibition- Korea

2011     Artist Camp and exhibition of paintings of SAARC Region

 

Presently- creative art classes for children and students at Sapumal Foundation and Jayanthi Chidrens Home Payagala

Mrs Cora Abraham 1970- “I have found in her a gifted artist with a good sense of colour and quite original……. As a teacher of young children she excels in drawing out the originality of the child.”

Neville Weeraratne 2000- “Noeline has learnt to draw out of children their own pure, unbiased responses to the world around them… We have in Noeline an artist who has matured at every level of experience which may be seen in the many differing approaches she makes in her paintings… Noeline Fernando’s style is direct. She enjoys her capacity to re-define structures as in the makeup of a face or that of a landscape…. In all her work there is consistency in her appreciation of colour for its own sake and as a means to obtaining textures which enliven an otherwise flat surface….What we have in this exhibition is the work of a first rate painter who fully understands her craft, knows the subtleties that make painting such a rewarding art form and has acquired the technical competence to practice her art with flair.”

Tissa Ranasinghe, 2000- “ Noeline paints because she must. An artist must have an inner compulsion, a knife in their backs to drive them forward to paint or to sculpt. Hroughout the long years I have known and watched her mature as a painter she has not lost this inner compulsion which drives her with a quiet ferocity to paint regardless of time place or circumstance.”

Palitha TB Kohona 2008- “Noeline is one of the leading women artists of Sri Lanka…. Her bold use of colurs, gifted mixing of tones and sensitive application help to convey a very effective visual image…. Certainly Noeline’s world amply demonstrates the beauty in her mind. Noeline not only paints, but is also a teacher and she conducts classes herself for needy children. She assists with an orphanage in Payagala and the children there have benefitted immensely from her efforts.”

Painting and teaching; two strokes with one brush By Shafraza Farook

She paints almost daily, mostly in the nights. Art has helped her overcome many obstacles that life hurled her way, she says. Strewn across the room are images of people painted in colours that reflect their individuality. There are landscapes too –the green fields and blue skies of Kalpitiya and vibrant abstracts. Noeline Fernando describes herself as a people’s person which is reflected in most of her art. She gets her inspiration from simple things like the way people dress, their work or the way they live. The artist is a mother of two, and as an art teacher who taught at many schools she feels that art is therapeutic. A teacher who believes her students should be guided and not taught, Noeline Fernando still pursues her passion and hobby of over 25 years with undiminished zest as she prepares for an exhibition next week. In this exhibition, ‘A journey’, she focuses on people, their day-to-day life and places. She hopes to display over 25 paintings that she has done over the course of her career and also expects to include paintings by her students, for in her own words, “I am also a teacher”. Noeline is as passionate about teaching as she is about painting. She enjoys working with children and visits the Jayanthi Children’s Home in Payagala twice a month. She also used to work part-time at The Chitra Lane School for the Special Child’, at St. Bridget’s Convent primary school and the SOS Children’s Village in Piliyandala. Her classes are not confined to children only but encompass adults as well. She strongly believes that it’s the desire and will that matters and not whether you are a child or an adult. The exhibition will be on from November 30 to December 3 at The Sapumal Foundation, Rosmead Place, Colombo 7 from 10 a.m. to 6.30 p.m.

The Instalations Project with the Theertha Group

Chilled clear liquid…froth, foam and bubbles….heady feeling….sounds like champagne but not quite so flimsy and shallow…memories of hard work and English pubs in the backwaters of Sri Lankan suburbia… drinking not to forget but to enjoy the camaraderie shared over a pint or two or three - as long as I was not heading out the door on a bubble of no-man’s-land…then again…a woman who liked beer…does that symbolize the inner me? The reality of a new woman made of sterner reality with the knowledge of man and the appreciation of woman… Perhaps … Yes, defiantly not flimsy and yet whimsical enough to understand that its not as stern as the alcoholic state I’ve seen driven into some by harder stuff…the bitter taste testing and teasing the tongue into an alertness only I know I enjoy because the age of years has shown me the steady pace I must keep so I don’t let the bubbles go out… letting the age old tradition instill in me lessons of patience and the ability to enjoy life as it goes by…just like enjoying that beer… Cheers!

Noeline Fernando, August 2006.

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Residence
Mount Lavinia, Sri Lanka.
Telephone (+94) 4204279/ (+94)0723328072

Office
32/4, Barnes Place, Colombo 7.

Telephone (+94) 0112695731 (3-6pm only)

The Artist & Her Work

1965 Joined Melbourne Art Classes headed by Mrs. Cora Abraham. Exhibited with the school.
1966 Joined as a member of the Young Artist Group. Exhibited with the group.
1970 Solo exhibition at the Samudra Gallery, Galle Face, Colombo 1.
1970 Exhibited in Motreal (Expo 1967 site) at ‘The Man & His World’ exhibition.
1971 Exhibited at the Septieme Biennale de Paris.
1972 Exhibited and received Certificate of Merit by the Arts Council of Sri Lanka.
1973 Solo exhibition at the Samudra Gallery, Galle Face, Colombo 1.
1986 Exhibited and received Certificate of Merit by the Arts Council of Sri Lanka.
1991 Solo exhibition at the Lionel Wednt Art Gallery.
1991 Open Studio Classes in Life Drawing at the Heatherly School of Fine Art Chelsea, England.
1994 Exhibited of My Paintings & Drawings at the 706 Gallery.
2000 Exhibited of My Paintings & Drawings at the 706 Gallery.
2000 Exhibited with the George Keyt Foundation.