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Down under through an artist’s lens by RAJA SEGAR Source: Australian Department of Foreign Affairs & Trade Before the advent of digital communication, there was a time when sending greeting cards by post was very popular. I begun making my own greeting cards with paintings depicting daily scenes of life in Sri Lanka and I was able to make my passion a commercial success over the years.     I had my 6th solo exhibition at Lionel Wendt Art Gallery in Colombo and was lucky to have had the 15 th High Commissioner of Australia to Sri Lanka, H.E. Ms. Tonia Shand grace the gallery as Chief Guest. It was the beginning of a long and close relationship between the two of us. A few months later, I came to Australia for my 9th solo exhibition in Mosman, Sydney. I must say that if Earth was paradise, then Mosman was ...