Chathurika is a Colombo-based mixed-media artist and graduate of the University of Visual and Performing Arts. Her works have been exhibited widely across Sri Lanka, including at the Saskia Fernando Gallery, Paradise Road Galleries, and in Sri Lankan Art curated by the George Keyt Foundation. Internationally, she has shown her work on South Asian platforms in Bangladesh, the Maldives, and Nepal, including the prestigious Asian Art Biennale. Jayani has also been recognized with multiple accolades at the State Art and Sculpture Festival, receiving First Place in 2011–2012, Second Place in 2020, and once again First Place in 2024.

Her practice, marked by bold textures and unconventional materials such as corrugated board, handmade paper, and thread, explores themes of urbanization, industrialization, and human connection—lately reframed through the resilient female gaze.

Through series such as City, Secret Vows, Dreamscape, and Dream Paradise, Jayani examines the tensions between progress and identity, personal desire and social expectation, as well as the environmental and ethical costs of development.  Jayani brings these concerns into dialogue with her own journey as a wife, mother, teacher, homemaker, and female artist, layering the personal with the universal in chronicles of resilience, optimism, and imagination.