Ekta is primarily a colored pencil artist, who enjoys capturing the beauty of nature in her artwork. She also loves the play of light and shadow on faces, and likes to utilize the simplicity of graphite to portray the complexity of wrinkles on paper. As the need for reference photos arose, she branched out into photography which has evolved into a full-blown passion. She believes art is a never-ending evolution of the creative mind and is constantly experimenting with different media including acrylics, charcoal, pastels, pen and ink, and chalk; various surfaces such as tiles, wood and burlap; genres ranging from realism to cubism; and diverse subjects including, but not limited to, flowers, people, insects, pets as well as abstract renditions of the same.

Mostly a self-taught artist, she has had the privilege of receiving art instruction from Duane Dudley (illustrator – Scooby Doo movies) in Tulsa, OK, and from Margaret Davidson, Kathleen McKeehen and many others at Gage Art Academy in Seattle, WA. She has shown her work, and curated shows, at local galleries, in juried exhibitions and at various art fairs in the Pacific Northwest area. She has also been invited to show her work in a solo exhibit in Mumbai, India. Her work has been featured in Courageous Creativity, Ann Kullberg’s Colored Pencil Magazine, as well as Colored Pencil Magazine. She has served on the boards of various nonprofits, including ArtEast,, a well-known gallery in Issaquah, WA. She has been teaching since 1996, and finds great joy in sharing her passion for creating art with her students.


Sweet and Sour by Ekta Gupta