As a Sri Lankan native, ancient Ceylonese art has had a profound impact on my understanding of space, colour and line. While figural representation has remained dominant in Ceylonese art, myaim is to explore a new form of figurationby introducing aprofoundsense of physical space.My body of work conceptually explores figural abstraction through “less is more”; addition throughsubtractionenables me to abstractly combine figural elements that visually depend on a repetitive process. Instead of inventing a subject matter that dictateshow I must paint, Iallow multiple pours to produce a composition to which I intuitively respond by means of a simple, hard-edged brushstroke. My system determines that color and form areintrinsically connected. The colourform thus establishes an all-over composition creating a uniform surface that is spatially enhanced by the layered canvases.In practice I do not treat the composition as a work in progress but rather as a creative thought in progress. By bearing no title,the painting births an identity of its own, enabling an open-ended visual dialoguebetween painting and viewer. DJ Perera