Kos Cos connects with his Sri Lankan roots and seeks to communicate where he is from and who he is in this new collection that honours the divine spirit, power and inner calm of the Asian elephant, and embraces the sense of simplicity and purity of the viewers’ inner child. The inspiration for ‘Serene Majesty’ came during a visit to the old Dutch fort in Galle, when he became transfixed by a magnificent silhouette that stood out against the glittering morning sun and rocking gracefully from side-to-side as if there was a silent rhythm. The Noble tusks convey a sense of royalty, and such a truly magnificent sight combining power and inner calm. “At that moment, all I wanted was a canvas.” Simple charcoals incorporate the traditional design elements and metallic acrylics to evoke his fondest childhood memory while at the same time representing bygone royalty and the important cultural relationship between elephants and people in the artist’s native Sri Lanka. Kos Cos was born in Colombo into an artistic family and began drawing and painting at his early age. After school, his playground was his father's agency workshop, where he studied and practised brush skills in the golden age of hand-drawn advertising. In 1999, he moved to Hong Kong, where he has expanded his creative capacity in the film, advertising, web and multimedia industries. This is his second exhibition with us at PubArt Gallery while his debut exhibition ‘The Devil Inside’, explored the notion of inner demons through a series of intense and vivid portraits of prominent public figures.