Riddhi Mishra

I didn’t begin as a painter—I began in structure. 

With a background in Communication Design and years spent shaping digital experiences & prints as a Graphic, Visual, and UX/UI Designer, I learned to think in systems, grids, and intention. Everything had a purpose, a logic, a reason to exist. 

But art, for me, began where that certainty softened. 

Watercolour entered my practice not as something I mastered, but as something I continue to surrender to. It shifts, bleeds, resists—and in doing so, it asks me to let go. What emerges is less about control and more about presence. 

Living in Alberta has quietly transformed the way I see. There is a vastness here that humbles you—the way the prairies stretch endlessly under open skies, where the horizon feels infinite, and the way the Rocky Mountains rise in contrast, grounding that openness with stillness and strength. These landscapes—rolling fields, shifting light, distant peaks—have become a silent influence in my work, pulling me deeper into observation and reflection.

My paintings live in that in-between space—between design and instinct, between precision and release. I am drawn to softness, to fleeting moments, to visuals that feel more like memories than images. I am an emerging artist, still becoming. This body of work is not a conclusion, but a beginning—shaped by place, by feeling, and by a growing need to translate both into something fluid, honest, and alive.