Champani Devika resides in Ragama.  She pursued her higher studies in China and obtained her MFA Degree in oil painting at the Central Institute of Fine Arts in Beijing.  Thereafter, she studied for an Advanced Certificate course in Chinese Traditional Painting.  She has participated in several exhibitions and also held solo exhibitions in Beijing.  In Sri Lanka, she serves the faculties of Art History and the Postgraduate Institute of Archaeology in lecturing on her specialty, Chinese Art History.  She has been recognized with several awards for her illustrations, and has for several years, been following a particular theme in her work, namely politically inspired iniquity.