A founder member of the original ’43 Group, Richard Gabriel was the youngest of the august company spearheaded by Lionel Wendt – of George Keyt, Geoffrey Beling, George Claessen, Justin Daraniyagala, Aubrey Collette, Ivan Peries, Harry Pieris and L.T.P. Manjusri who made a significant impact locally and internationally, melding traditional art forms with the modernity of the West to present a distinctively Lankan experience.

3. The artist’s
father

4. Richard and Sita Gabriel in their home in
Depanama, Pannipitiya

5. The artist’s mother

6. Brother Edmund

7. Sita

8. Rene at her first
communion

9. Angelo

10. The infant
Angelo

11. Family portrait

12. Harry pieris
:portrait of
Gabriel

13. Sita
kulasekara:
richard
convalescing

14. Portrait of
christopher ondaatje

15. Christopher
Columbus
(line drawing)

16. Fish vendors

17. Waiting for the boats to
return

18. Solitary fisherman

19. The old fisherman

20. Figures on a
Beach

21. Fishermen in
white

22. By the river

23. bathers

24. bathers

25. Entertainer
with monkey

26. Frolicking
monkeys

27. Book illustrations, fables
with a local theme

28. The good
Samaritan

29. Thrikkele race

30. Fishermen resting

31. By the river

32. Women bathers

33. Bathing bulls

34. Fighting bulls restrained

35. The quarrel

36. Village quarrel

37. Coconut
plantation

38. The wise and foolish virgins

39. Women
gather
paddy

40. Bull harried by
crows

41. The family

42. The village
palmist

43. Mother and
children

44. The flood

45. Desire for
Peace

46. The beggar woman

47. Village scene

48. Country houses

49. Anxious wait

50. The mudalali

51. The tree of wisdom: scorpio

52. Skittish goat

53. Mural for W.H.O

54. Fisher folk

55. Resting from their
labours

56. Fighting bulls

57. Family quarrel

58. Fisher
family

59. Down by the river
side

60. Outrigger
canoes

61. Evening on the beach

62. East coast fair

63. Girl with bird

64. The fortune
teller

65. The blue horse

66. Villagers at evening

67. Group discussion

68. The prodigal son

69. Boy with goat

70. Deer captured

71. The duel

72. Thirikkele race

73. Deer subdued

74. Driving buffaloes

75. The Rampant
Bull

76. Kamatha (threshing ground)

77. ploughing

78. The docile bull

79. The runaway
bull

80. deer

81. Restive bulls

82. Thirikling Races

83. Thirikkele
race

84. Before the Entombment

85. Jesus, mary and
Joseph

86. Mother and
child

87. The cross
Leather binding by the artist of
a book of fifteen etching with
etched title page

88. Christ before pilate
etching

89. Veronica wipes the
face of jesus

90. Jesus
carrying
our cross

91. Jesus meets his
mother

92. Christ lowered
from his cross

93. Untitled

94. Thapassa monks

95. Adam and eve

96. racism

97. labourer

98. Angel of peace

99. The angel of death and peace

100. vanity

101. The lovers

102. Artist and model

103. The milk maid

104. Madonna and child

105. Massacre
of the
innocents

106. Dog’s
freedom to
bark

107. Mother and
frightened child

108. elysium

110. St. Therese of lisieux in glory

111. Our lady giving the rosary to
St,Dominic

112. The
agony
in the
garden

113. St, thomas aquinas with melchisedech
and st paula

114. The last supper

115. Christ the king surrounded by his
angels and his saints

116. The saints with
the archangel
gabriel, moses
and st.peter

117. The prodigal son

118. The good samarian

119. The good
shepherd

120. crucifix

121. Madonna and the
child jesus

122. The risen
christ

123. The crucifixion and
Madonna and sun

124. Pastoral symphony