Meeta Dani is an internationally renowned award-winning Indian watercolor artist who is now based in Burnaby, Canada. She has a postgraduate degree in computer science and has worked as a software engineer for over a decade.
Meeta started her career as an artist after she lost her mother to cancer in May 2010. She initially worked in oils and acrylics and exhibited her works in local galleries in India. Later, in early 2015, she developed a strong fascination towards watercolors and started painting in a realistic style in March of 2015 and has been going strong ever since. She is completely self-taught, learning mostly by experimenting with watercolors.
Meeta paints portraits, wildlife, still-life, and enjoys painting subjects that seem challenging to her. Light is an integral part of her paintings, and the use of bold colors makes her work strong and crisp.
Meeta has exhibited in several international juried exhibitions and has also been a judge for several international painting contests and exhibitions. She has been selected as one of the grandmasters of fine art around the world in 2017 by the 'The Grand Masters Of Fine Art'. Her first book, 'Realistic Watercolor Unleashed', is one of the most renowned books in watercolors with over 2300 copies sold worldwide. This is the only book in the market for teaching a variety of subjects like blurred backgrounds, fur, feathers, wood, water, skin, and perspective painting on architecture in a photo-realistic style using watercolors. She is also a signature member of the Federation of Canadian Artists (SFCA).
Meeta is the founder and president of the not-for-profit international organization 'Global Association of Watercolor Artists' (GAWA). She founded this organization in January 2018 with the sole purpose of providing an unbiased international platform for supporting watercolor artists all around the world, to help them grow and advance in their artistic career. She is actively working towards improving the world watercolor market and is also conducting various online courses to spread her knowledge of watercolors all over the world.
