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Honours, Awards, Events & Features

Honours

  • International Prize “POSEIDON - the king of Laguna- for the Arts at Venice @  Scuola Grande di San Teodoro, Venice on November 29th 2025

  • International Artists of the French Riviera Prize @ Musée National du Sport, Nice, France on September 12, 2025

Features

  • Master Artists to Collect Vol. V – 2025

  •  catalogue -International Prize Poseidon for Arts

  • Catalogue -of the International Prize Artists on the French Riviera 

  • Master Artists to Collect Artbook |Issue 3 |2025

  • Fine art Connoiseur magazine - Sept./Oct. 2025 ​

  • Masterful Minds Magazine - Artists to Watch in 2025 #8

  • Artist Talk Magazine #36

  • The Indian Express

  • Catalogue IBAS​

Events

  • The Face, The Figure 2025 -Las Laguna Gallery, CA 2025

  • Art Expo NewYork 2025

  • Botanical Art Worldwide, India - Country representation (Invitational) 2025

  • Linkedin Women of the World 2024 - Tribeca, NYC  fr. 20th to 25th Aug. 2024

  • Association of Animal Artists, Autumn Exhibition, UK  from  11th to 24th Nov. 24

  • Association of Animal Artists, Annual Charity Art Auction, UK 1st Aug. to 31st Aug. 2024

  •  Association of Animal Artists, online Exhibition, fr. 24th Jun to 14th July 2024

  • Association of Animal Artists, Spring Exhibition, Paterson Gallery, UK fr. 29th Mar. to Apr.'24

  • Association of Animal Artists, Autumn Exhibition, The Station, Richmond fr. 19th Nov. to 5th Dec. 2023

  • Faraway Places, las Laguna Gallery, USA 2022

  • National Oil and Acrylic Society online Assoicate Member Exhibition 2021

  • Dubai Art Expo 2021 - country representation (invitational)

  • 15 Solo and group private shows (invitationals) fr. 2004 to 2021

  • Juried Art Exhibition, Christian Youth International, Colombo 1990

Memberships

  • National Oil & Acrylic Society, USA - past member

  • Association of Animal Artists - past member

Notable local collections

Ian and Roslin Goonetilleke Collection, Largest private art collection in Sri Lanka owned by prominent scholar and art collector, Ian Goonetilleke, donated 90% of his collection to the University of Peradeniya, Sri Lanka before his death in 2003.

Private Commissions & Institutional Acquisitions

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