Nightscapes (Muhanned Cader, Colombo, Sri Lanka)
Cader creates visual vignettes with unique shapes that are vitalised by the use of jewel-like pigments or soft layers of charcoal.
Nightscapes 3, 1999, Muhanned Cader
Night sky #2, 2023, Muhanned Cader, oil on cut and unstretched canvas, 17 × 17 in | 43.2 × 43.2 cm
Nugaduwa 5, 2021, Muhanned Cader, oil on wood, 24 x 43 cm, image courtesy the artist and Grey Noise
Kumbukan Oya nightscape, 2022, Muhanned Cader, oil on wood, 10.5 x 17 in/ 26.6 x 43.1 cm
Cader was born in Colombo Sri Lanka, studied at the School of the Art Institute of Chicago, and lives and works between Galle, Sri Lanka and the United Kingdom.