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Funday artists on show
By Esther Williams
Brilliant splashes of colour make up the students' paintings depicting their understanding of the themes allotted to them. Using watercolours, crayons, paints and colour pencils, students have let their imagination blossom and have shown much creativity.

Entries from all over the country have come in for the Funday Times Art Exhibition that will be held at the National Art Gallery, Ananda Coomarasamy Mawatha on September 28, between 10.00 a.m. and 6.00 p.m.

Themes for each of the age groups are: My World (Ages 7-8), Environment (ages 9-11), Peace (Ages 11-14) and any subject of their choice for ages 4-6.

While some of the entries, especially by the older age group have a clear message about peace or environment, there are others that show nature, animals and people living in harmony - a child’s understanding of an ideal world where peace reigns for everyone.

Interestingly some paintings show the startling changes in our concrete cities with modern technology but little room for nature. A panel of judges will view the paintings prior to the exhibition and award three prizes for each of the categories.

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