Featured paintings
Into the Light (figure) – SOLD!
9”x12” watercolor on Arches paper
Framed and signed original – $850
Signed limited edition high quality color matched archival prints- $195 each
So Fecund (Figs four ways) – Available
9”x12” watercolor on Arches paper
Framed and signed original – $850
Signed limited edition high quality color matched archival prints- $195 each
Celebration! (winter berries)
9”x12” watercolor on Arches paper
Framed and signed original – $850
Signed limited edition high quality color matched archival prints- $195 each
Preview more of the show here
Hi Everyone!
My watercolors are wet, the phone is ringing, new frames are coming, mats are being cut, and we are bustling with excitement in preparation for my FIRST exhibit in California!
If you’re local, come to the opening night- Sept 25, 5-9pm live at the Design Table.
We will have a live DJ, oysters, and so many beautiful artists sharing their work live at the Fairfax Art Walk.
I fell in love with this shop and the vibe Elizabeth curates. Besides the most gorgeous flowers, she has built a community around a beautiful wooden table- where people gather to create. We will have a watercolor workshop there later this year, so stay tuned…
I’ll have originals and prints for sale at a fraction of the cost.
All the images can be reproduced on exquisitely fine art paper, and I’m having real pros work on it- with perfect color matching and everything on beautiful watercolor paper.
So if you can’t come in person for the show, you can still order prints – Just email me. I am sending a batch to the press tomorrow.
I’d love to talk all things watercolor and art and beauty and magic with you!
MORE INFO ON THE FAIRFAX ART WALK HERE
MORE INFO ON THE DESIGN TABLE HERE
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SHOW BIO
Ishita Sharma paints to share her awe of this Human Life. She is a multi-disciplinary artist and contemporary spiritual teacher. Born in the Indian Himalayas, she now resides at the foot of Mt. Tamalpais in Marin, CA. All her creations are devotions to that place in us where the Universal and particular meet- as joy, and aliveness!
Simultaneously soft and stark- technically rigorous, yet poetically ephemeral, her watercolors invite us into the same enchantment they are born of.
Tracing the love affair between light and shadow, form and space, known and unknown, they celebrate our magical capacity to pause, see and feel what is, and in that pausing, to transform the mundane into the miraculous- whether beholding the contours of a belly button, a humble fig, or the depths of our own Human hearts.
ARTIST STATEMENT
I make art in many mediums, but watercolor in particular, offers a humbling mirror for Life. It’s honest- brush strokes can’t be hidden or doubled. One has to get with its flow, and quickly! The paper becomes Light itself, and my brush obscures it to reveal form. We work together- I paint one part, the ineffable paints the other.
This series of watercolors was born of enchantment, and invites you into that same delight. The red berries were painted by winter fires through frost, the figs as they burst fecund in the heat of summer…the figures are quick captures of live models in sweaty studios. I relished every moment of the process!
Painting is a direct line to Source. Devoting loving attention to my subjects honors their essential nature and softens me to what is. To meet the essence of things, of people, is like kissing the Divine…it fills me.
And like Life, the mystery keeps me on my toes- will my brush capture the curves before the sheet dries? Will the water make a little inky miracle of its own accord? Will you feel the sacred mundane, and meet me in awe of being alive?
