Chinese art students hold mixed media painting exhibition on Sri Lanka in Shanghai

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Following a visit of a Chinese group of students and their parents to Sri Lanka, facilitated by the Consulate General, a mixed media painting exhibition organised by the school founder Jing Xia was held at the school in the Gubei area Shanghai, recently. Xia, a professor in Arts at the Design and Art Department, Dong Hua University in Shanghai, is a well-known artist and art teacher in Shanghai, who has pioneered the use of diversified materials to promote creativity in painting in China. She is known both in China and abroad, having had 46 exhibitions. The school founded in 2004 has over six branches in Shanghai.

The group visited Sri Lanka in early April 2013 over the Chinese Spring Festival Holidays and had done many on-the-spot paintings, in places such as Sigiriya, Pinnawala Elephant Orphanage, tea plantations and beaches. The Consulate General also arranged for the Group to visit the Cora Ibrahim Art School in Sri Lanka for an interactive session between students of art from the two countries to share their different cultures. The painting exhibition in Shanghai commenced with the lighting of the oil lamp by all the student painters. Some parents who accompanied the students to Sri Lanka also exhibited some of their work at the exhibition alongside the work of the students. The exhibition was attended by the group that visited Sri Lanka, as well as a number of parents and students who had not visited Sri Lanka. The Consulate General provided some Sri Lankan snacks and tea and showcased Sri Lanka as a tourist destination through an audiovisual presentation. Xia assured that similar sightseeing and painting tours to Sri Lanka would be organised in the future and would become a regular activity in the school calendar.