Nayomi Munaweera-Atugoda is a fine artist within the San Francisco Dhamaal Artist Collective. She works primarily on canvas using the medium of watercolor, acrylic and oil paints. Nayomi is primarily self-taught and her subject matter is inspired by the  ancient art and sculpture of South Asia.
Her current collection consists of large canvas tapestries that depict her own interpretations of Buddhist and Hindu deities. She is interested in re-visiting these concepts of the Divine through a feminist perspective as is evidenced by her painting, Female Buddha. Nayomi also takes as inspiration, the traditional artwork of the Kandyan region of her country of origin, Sri Lanka. Using the limited, but vivid color palette of this region, Nayomi strives to recreate artwork that evokes the particular ethos of the Kandyan period.

Nayomi’s work has been shown at varied venues throughout California including San Francisco’s Asian Art Museum as part of a Dhamaal Collective Special Event. Her latest showing will be at the September 17th concert of tabla maestro, Zahir Hussein at San Francisco’s Grace Cathedral. Nayomi’s work can also be seen at her monthly residence at Dhamaal.