opalapillai Mathiskumar is a contemporary artist, from Akkaraipattu, Eastern Province, Sri Lanka. Recognised as one of ARTRA’s Emerging Artists, Best of 2023 his works of art explore the poignancy of nature and the avarice of humanity. He is currently reading his PHD at the University of Lucknow, India for which he has been working with the mixed media such as clothes, thread and poly bags (collage on canvas). He worked as a Temporary lecturer from 2016 to 2017 at SVIAS. He has participated in nine of the group art exhibitions by the Non- Violent Artist Group which took place across the years, exhibiting art works at public space while also interacting with a public for community engagement via artistic expression in the Eastern and Northern Provinces in Sri Lanka.