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Committee, Painting and Sculpture panel of the Arts Council of Sri Lanka. She was the only Sri Lankan to be invited for the World Art Dubai 2016 event and she displayed one of her paintings in the event. She received the prestigious national honour of Kala Bhushana in 2021 in recognition of her outstanding contributions to the field of arts. In 2016, Sifani Jewellers hosted Iromie along with Raja Segar for a joint exhibition in order to display their distinctly different styles of paintings.
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in painting, textile designing, and printing, and she was part of
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In March 2024, she marked her 50 years of painting career by conducting an exhibition titled "Celebration of women" at the Harold Peiris
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magazine in 1999 and it was finalized by the magazine. She became only the third Sri Lankan artist to have had their paintings gracing the back cover of the
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