Artist brings honour to Lanka

Tributes to my great teacher Lionel Ranaweera, the wellknown artist and teacher of Ananda College. I want to give my gratitude for bringing the honour for Sri Lanka. He has bred a whole lot of young artists in Sri Lanka. In every year his students of 'Jathika Lama Chitra Kala Padanama' brings a lot of gold, silver and bronze medals to Sri Lanka in international children's art competitions. Being a student, I was able to win a lot of medal in the recent past. I can remember those days how he brought up our creativity.

The following was extracted from the Daily News Jan 19, 2006 article.

Artist brings honour to Lanka

Lionel Ranaweera

VETERAN artist Lionel Ranaweera has been awarded the International Award for Best Art Teacher by the Nova Sagora Foundation of Bulgaria. The Award is given in commemoration of Prof. Stoyano Stoyanov.

Lionel Ranaweera is the first Sri Lankan art teacher to win this award.

Thirty-seven countries participated in the International Art Exhibition held in Bulgaria and Sri Lanka won the first place. The students of Jathika Lama Chitra Kala Padanama won all the prizes.

Lionel Ranaweera has won many silver and gold awards during his 36 years of teaching and promoting art among children.

His services have been recognised by many other countries such as Czecholovakia, Romania and Japan.

- RSK