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Metta began in my grandmother's kitchen in Aluvihare, long before I knew it had a name. Here's how a hearth, a word, and forty years of memory became a painting.

Finding Voice in the In-Between As a Sri Lankan artist living and creating in Australia, I constantly navigate the space between worlds. The Western art landscape surrounds me, filled with established tropes, tools, and tastes. My Eastern heritage is rich with its own aesthetic traditions and ways of seeing. Yet, there exists a third space where my eco-print paintings emerge, guided not by cultural expectations but by the whispered instructions of leaves, bark, and botanical