Moumita Roychowdhury

Moumita is a self-taught artist and art teacher based out of Kitchener-Waterloo. Nature plays the lead role in her work, captured through the spontaneous flow of watercolors or the vibrant brush strokes of acrylics or the soft subtleness of pastels. She likes to take inspiration from the colours and moods of nature which changes like the myriad shades of human emotions. She has been teaching art courses in a variety of media at the Button Factory Arts, Homer Watson House & Gallery and with the City of Waterloo. Moumita enjoys the thrill of capturing nature en plein air as well as painting live in and has won several live art competitions like the ArtBattle and The Brush Off. She is also enthralled by the impact and joy of creating murals in public spaces and has created some large-scale murals in the Waterloo region. 

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In 2020, Moumita won the gold award for the Best Local Visual Artist category for the Waterloo Region Records Reader's Choice Awards. She has been a regular winner of the live art competition The Brush Off at The Museum in Kitchener in 2019, 2023, 2024, 2025 as well as ArtBattle live competitions in various cities as well as at the Nationals. Her art has been exhibited and awarded at several juried exhibitions across Ontario and she has won many awards. She has also created some large-scale murals in Waterloo Region. She is Vice President, Central Ontario Art Association (COAA) and a member of the Grand River Artists Collective (GRACE), Canadian Society of Painters in Watercolours (CSPWC).