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Neela Pushparaj

Lives and works in Mendham, New Jersey, USA
www.watercolorsbyneela.com | www.allposters.com

I am a 70 + year old grandmother and a retired Many of my prints hang at the St. Francis Hospital in

pathologist who enjoyed teaching as well as working Poughkeepsie, NY and six of my semiabstract floral
as a hospital pathologist until January 2000. prints are in the radiology department of Atlantic City
Medical Center, as a result of being chosen from a
I started watercolor lessons at the now defunct Summit State wide competition a few years ago. I also routinely

Adult Education program and learned the rudiments of contribute paintings to fund raising for the Summit
Watercolor painting from Sarita Anne Cook in 1987 at Rotary Club scholarship activity and the St Francis
age 49. After two semesters with her, she recommended Hospital Foundation Several of my paintings are on
that I attend a more formal program. This led me to display at a local financial services firm in Chatham, NJ.

du’Cret, a non-accredited art school in Plainfield, NJ.
I am a member of the NJCVA, GSWCS and the Essex
Upon her advice, I spent a whole year going to art school Watercolor Club. I exhibit with these organizations on
on Wednesdays and the rest of the week pursuing my and off and have received a certificate of honor from

profession of Pathology and, I became addicted to NJCVA in Summit. In the past, I have had a few solo
painting and watercolors in particular. shows at the Radiology Gallery at St Francis, which I
helped start and I have exhibited at the Morristown
I began many a work day at five in the morning so Memorial Hospital, the Bouras office building in Summit

that I could paint for a few hours before leaving for as well as at the New Providence and Summit libraries.
the hospital and was sometimes late in getting there
as I was so engrossed in my watercolors! I also took For the past five years, I have been the art director of a
several workshops with well- known artists, especially show called WomanArt which is run by the Summit College

Barbara Nechis. Club for women artists of the NY-NJ-PA area at the New
Providence library were artists can exhibit two dimensional
My favorite way of painting is to add colors to wet art in any medium without restrictions for a small fee.
or damp paper and allowing shapes to emerge from

them by picking them out with negative painting. I like At the urging of some friends, I have recently stated giving
and use a lot of COLOR in my work; I use a veritable lessons in my style of watercolors at my home in Summit.
TOP CONTEMPOR ARY ARTISTS sometimes totally abstract. I am more restrained in my “Painting is an integral part of my life. It is an expression
feast of colors in my florals which are semi-abstract to

landscapes and still life work.
of my joy in everything I see.”

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