Nimal Perera

Nimal Perera has spent a lifetime in Nuwara Eliya, slicing meat for loyal customers, each cut precise and as requested. His small room above the guesthouse overlooks a vibrant market, yet he finds solace in the quiet patch of ground where he tends to his cabbages, carrots, and potatoes. Nights are sleepless as he fears the day his hands might falter, losing his ability to create honest food, and as a parallel, the textures of the silence he portraits in his art.