Rama "Sam" Samaraweera (1926-14 October 2021) was a British self-taught artist who lived and worked in Wales.
He specialised in painting wildlife and was inspired by a year working as a keeper at Dudley Zoo.
He drew animals as a child, encouraged by his father, a doctor from Ceylon (now Sri Lanka) who was a GP in Birmingham.
He trained as a teacher and he and his wife Sue went to Jamaica where he lectured in art and English literature.
[2][3][4][5][6] Samaraweera, a grandfather, lived in Llanfyllin, Powys, Wales, where he had a studio in which he painted every day.