Komathy Hawkins - 2025
Komathy comes from Sri Lanka - a small tropical island which some still call a teardrop in the Indian Ocean. She learnt art from a very young age, encouraged by her uncle who was a renowned international artist. She grew up surrounded by paint and colour and studied Art to an Advanced Level at College in Jaffna.
Sadly, owing to the civil conflict, she had to leave her country and with it left behind her love of art. The years of building a new life in a new country stalled her artistic dreams but recently she has been able to find herself again. Now she is sketching and painting with a new-found freedom. Art has once again become an important part of who she is.
Now living in Hertfordshire, she specialises in portraiture, figures, and modern/contemporary styles. She works with a variety of mediums - oil, acrylic, water ink, charcoal - and has also studied colour and skin-tone techniques at CityLit College in London. She loves experimenting and through her work celebrates humanity and nature. She treasures the marks people make on the world – the local, the small scale, the global, the eccentric, the ordinary – but all her paintings have one thing in common. They are created out of caring.
Komathy has exhibited at Private Exhibitions in Newbury and within the local community. In 2021 one of her oil paintings – “Waiting in the Moonlight” - was selected for inclusion in the Royal Academy Summer Exhibition. It sold before the Exhibition opened to the public.
More recently she has been invited to tutor Portrait Painting Workshops at Letchworth College and is now starting to hold her own private tutor groups.
Komathy also undertakes portrait commissions. Her art is an expression of herself, of what she loves, feels and notices.