Gamini Ratnavira

Tropical Influence

I have led nature tours to Peru and traveled to Australia,
Costa Rica, Belize, Bermuda, andhave lived 38 years of my life
in Sri Lanka gathering research for my artwork.
I dream the rain forest and create my teacher outof respect for life in all forms. Enjoy every leaf,
with bug bites and sunburned edges, the symbiotic relationships
in the artwork and delicacy of the blooms.
Each piece is a path I have traveled and
recreated from my heart.

~Gamini~

Ode to The Rain Forest

Speak to me ~
Describe your ancestry
Teach me your web of life giving symbiosis
Sound out for me this breathtaking union
Until I understand we are composed
Of the same atoms.
And both must live in beauty
Before we become one
In our extinction .

~Lisa Warner Albright~
September 1999

“I have admired Gamini Ratnavira and his artwork for years. He is a seasoned veteran who has established himself among the best especially in the area of rainforest subject matter, as evidenced by the wide selection of his work in the national traveling exhibition which I curated entitled ART OF THE RAINFOREST. But when I recently saw Gamini's new direction, influenced and shaped by Japanese style, I was blown away. Not only are these paintings new and beautiful and strong, but they are also an indicator of just how talented and versatile he is as an artist. I might add that Gamini surprised me in another way a few years ago when he produced his first bronze and I exhibited it at the National Geographic Society in Washington, D.C.”

David J. Wagner, Ph.D.

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