With over four decades of drawing in pastels, Arjuna Gunarathne presents Horizons, his 2024 collection, which serves as a precursor to his 2025 Oil series, Resonance (Impressions of the Mundane) (2024–2025). These twenty pastel works are intimate visual impressions, drawn from familial moments and quiet reflections on the unfolding future.

Horizons - literal and metaphorical - appear in every work, anchoring the collection in a contemplative tension between the present and what lies ahead. At the heart of each composition are figures rendered with spontaneous mastery: singular gestures drawn with the delicacy and precision of miniature painting. These marks embody the present moment: open, alive, while being self-reflective.

Multiple visual perspectives are distilled into a unified pictorial space, evoking the beauty and ambiguity of the uncertain future. The abstraction that emerges is not detached, but deeply felt, introspective and immersive, charged with possibility.

Colour plays a vital role in expressing positive, progressive possibilities. At the same time, spontaneous Marks surrender the figure in the face of destiny (represented in the form of horizons), rising above undeterred, standing in fortitude and familial harmony.

Executed in richly pigmented, expressive crayons, each piece invites close viewing. Arjuna’s meticulous selection of materials, honed over years of practice, imbues the surface with chromatic depth and emotional immediacy. Horizons is a collection that rewards both distance and intimacy, offering a quietly profound encounter with time, memory, and abstraction.