Shikha Garg

Bangalore based artist, Shikha Garg has been painting and experimenting with watercolor for the last decade. Originally a Visual Communication Designer by profession, she worked with several design and advertising agencies since 1999 till she founded her own design company midniteOil Design in 2005. She worked for the next 10 years with clients across the globe honing her design and marketing skills in the process.

In 2014, while on a sabbatical she took, to spend time with her twin daughters, Shikha re-discovered her passion for fine art and started painting in Oil and Acrylics first. But exploring and falling in love with Watercolor as a medium was a wonderous and serendipitous journey of self discovery. An avid traveler, Shikha loves exploring new places with her family and translates her experiences visually through her art. A sketchbook in her hand, a new city and the sun in her face - thats heaven right there! Nature and different cultures inspire her. Shikha works now mostly with Watercolour, discovering, experimenting and falling more in love with this beautiful medium each day, painting nature, florals, landscapes...

Shikha has been representing South India at Fabriano Inacquarello since 2020 as a Leader and helps curate a group of exhibiting artists for the festival each year. Other than Fabriano, she has been actively participating in exhibitions since 2018 to date held around the world including India, Japan, Ukraine, UK, Bulgaria, Vietnam, USA, to name a few.  During the pandemic, she have helped organize 2 exhibitions and has participated in 6 online exhibitions, Together 39, Wide Canvas 2020, Focuis Bangladesh 2020 and SM Sultan Online International Exhibition - 2020 as an honourary guest artist, Arzole : Resurgence - The World after Pandemic and online exhibition by Japanese International Watercolor Institute.
Post pandemic, Shikha has been actively curating for exhibitions as well as organising in person art workshops and tours in India.