Nishtha Berry

Nishtha Berry is a young painter from Dehradun working in the visual-art tradition. "I'm Nishtha, a 21 year old artist," she writes, "finding fun, love, and beauty in life and recreating it on canvas." Her hope is disarmingly direct — that her work "makes the viewer feel something" — and it shapes a body of painting that leans warm, personal and quietly hopeful, made, as her tagline puts it, "to make the world a more beautiful place."

She moves fluidly between mediums rather than settling into one. Found is watercolour on paper; Intra, Growth and a quiet moment are oil on canvas; Connect is mixed media on canvas, and dreamin' is acrylic. Her Musée Living feature reads these titles as "chapters in an ongoing meditation on presence and becoming" — a fitting description of paintings the writer sees as made from "time spent, decisions made, and risks taken," each carrying the residue of a real, working hand rather than a formula.

Nishtha is part of the artist community that formed around Musée Art Café in Dehradun, the home base from which KalaCUBE grew. If her feeling-first canvases resonate with you, explore her collection and collect her work below.

Nishtha Berry on KalaCUBE · her Musée Living feature