Padma started her artistic journey in her native India where she grew up the youngest of six children. She is now based in New Jersey working as a full-time Graphic/Web Designer and pursuing her passion for Watercolor Painting. Having worked with all mediums in the past, she gravitated to watercolor for she found it more challenging than any other medium. Initially she started with realistic paintings but slowly she moved towards impressionism and currently her paintings lie somewhere in-between. She has become quite an accomplished painter, despite having no formal training nor the benefit of mentorship from a professional painter. She is completely self-taught. For her art is a labor of love; a way of speaking her heart out and be in unison with what nature has to offer. Her work has been represented in juried exhibitions and she won awards in a few painting competitions. She volunteers occasionally for New Jersey Watercolor Society to design the Award Certificates for the contests. Recently on Aug 10, 2022, she participated in “Artists’ talks” for Monmouth County Park System’s...