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Siri Dehipitiya studied  drawing and painting at the Haywood College of Fine Arts in Colombo, Sri Lanka. He has presented his art work in exhibitions throughout Sri Lanka. One of his paintings was selected  to be permanently displayed at the Art Gallery  of  Sri Lanka during the early sixties.

In 1975 Siri and his family immigrated to the United States where he continued to pursue  his interest by taking courses in graphic communications and calligraphy at  the Tracy Education Center, and Art Courses in the community school in Norwalk, California. In 1978 he and his family moved permanently to Texas  where he currently resides. He taught calligraphy in  Austin Community Schools for several years.

Several years ago he enrolled at the Elizabeth  Ney  Sculpture Conservatory in Austin (now Austin Sculpture Center) to study figure and portrait sculpture in clay.  He also studied  concrete sculpture, stone carving and bronze casting. He continued to exhibit his work around Texas and he has been involved in numerous group exhibitions.

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                         See gallery 2 for the above sculptures