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.”