William James Geoffrey Beling (22 September 1907 - 29 March 1992) was a Sri Lankan artist, educator and one of the founding members of the Colombo '43 Group.
In 1930 at the Ferguson Hall, Union Place, the photographer Lionel Wendt organised Beling and fellow artist George Keyt's first exhibition.
with his paintings from the early 1930s bearing "a striking similarity to those of Keyt in the use of pure colour, simplification of forms to their basic volumes, and the faceting of objects."
Winzer wrote, "Beling's landscapes are admirably constructed and his handling of the endless variety of greens seen in tropical nature is an achievement in itself.
[2] They had four children, Geoffrey Paul (20 July 1942), Christopher David (19 January 1944),Cynthia Ruth (29 November 1945) and Mary Anne (21 October 1959).