Painting differently

Thilo Saravanamuttu’s Bird from another planet

Navajeevana, Sri Lanka’s largest community based rehabilitation organisation in the South, serving the needs of people with disabilities, will hold an exhibition by prominent artists as a part of its 20th anniversary inaugural fundraising event on Thursday, August 2 at the BMICH.

All featured artists are people with disabilities who have achieved significant artistic success in their respective areas encompassing portraits, abstract paintings, landscapes, sketches and sculpture.

Artists showcased include veteranslike hearing impaired landscape artist and sculptor Nihal Sangabo Dias as well as newcomers H. M. A. Chandrasena and Thilo Saravanamuttu, both of whom are mentally challenged.