ERROR RG P4 23.6.1995 The exhibition `Jewels of the Sea,' by Gamini Ratnavira, opens on Saturday, July 1, not Saturday, June 24 as stated in yesterday's Royal Gazette.

An exhibition by Sri Lankan-born artist Gamini Ratnavira opens at Heritage House on Saturday.

This show, by the internationally acclaimed self-taught painter who specialises in studies of sealife and wildlife is just one of several art shows which will be opening its doors to the public this weekend.

On Friday evening, a three-day joint exhibition, entitled `Seeds', will be staged at Admiralty House Community Centre's Ballroom, and will feature paintings, photography, sculpture, fibre art and ceramics by Will Collieson, Paul Clinton, Christine Wellman, David Wellman, Riona Rodriguez and Antoine Hunt.

The Bermuda Society of Arts Members' Summer Show opens on Saturday. The preview of the show will be opened by Police Commissioner Colin Coxall on Friday evening.

At the Bermuda National Gallery, two shows will open.

Chairman of the Bermuda Arts Council and one of the Gallery's founders, Dr.

Charles Zuill will present his `Summer Series', while works by such "modern'' greats as Frank Stella have been loaned for `Abstractions'.

Finally, the latest works of Bermudian artist Bruce Stuart will be on view at Masterworks' gallery on Bermuda House Lane, on Friday, and besides his local images, will feature works inspired by a recent trip to New Mexico.

For each picture sold at the `Jewels of the Sea' exhibition, Heritage House will be making a donation to the Bermuda Zoological Society, in aid of the new North Rock Exhibition.

Mr. Ratnavira, who runs his own gallery, and raises birds in San Diego, California, has worked as a field technician collecting entomology specimens for the Smithsonian Institute and also spent some years as a naturalist tour guide in Sri Lanka.

His work was featured on a series of stamps depicting the flora and fauna of his country; his painting have appeared in several wildlife publications and he has exhibited in Belgium, the US and Canada.

"JEWELS OF THE SEA'' -- One of the sea-life paintings featured at Gamini Ratnavira's Heritage House exhibition.