Pushpakumara is an expressionist in a unique sense, I call him unique because his paintings are formed in a manner that is so uncharacteristic Of expressionistic painting tradition of Sri Lanka. His current works are softer than they ever were. They are subtly multi-layered, sketchy and translucent. In a way his works effect an unfinished ambience. The sketchiness, The softness and the indecisiveness of the brush strokes, the colours and of the positioning of the figures in his current works have made them strongly “original ” in an expressionistic sense. What this means is that he has consciously and, therefore, rationally institutionalized and classicized within one of the  main streams of modernism in Sri Lanka. In short, it can be argued that pushpakumara is Trying to act think like an uninitiated youth while keeping in mind the capabilities of an experienced adult in the visual arts.

Jagath Weerasinghe