Krishna Kataria is a non-profit watercolour artist based in London, painting to help those in need. She donates 100% of proceeds to charity and has raised over £40,000 across 7 charities.
Krishna is inspired by traveling the world, observing different cultures and spending time in nature.
She is passionate about watercolours as it is a challenging medium to navigate and requires extensive paint manipulation. It is the happy accidents that give her a buzz.
Current Charity
Ripple Africa (Current Charity)
Since 2018, Krishna has been donating to RIPPLE Africa which helps empower communities in Malawi and Zambia by building schools and community centres.
RIPPLE Africa believes local people are the solution to many of the challenges they face, adopting a grass-root approach to projects by employing local staff.
Read more here.
Past Charities
One Kind Act
In 2016, Krishna donated three paintings to One Kind Act for a charity auction.
The money raised at the auction was used to help fund project “Destiny” in Sierra Leone, a community-led relocation plan that enabled over 2,000 people to be relocated into a new community that provides jobs, education, low cost homes, social infrastructure, utilities, vocational training and health facilities.
Read more here.
Kidney Hospital
In 2015, Krishna exhibited 55 paintings and raised £16,000 for the Kidney Hospital in Rajkot, India. An article on the event featured in the local newspaper:
Krishna Kataria, a native of Rajkot and currently residing in London, is exhibiting her paintings at Rajkot's B.T. Savani Kidney Hospital. 100% of the proceeds will be dedicated towards the treatment of patients at the hospital, plus relief bonds will be issued to those who buy the paintings which they can then use to help impoverished patients.
In her interview, Mrs. Kataria said, "I feel great joy in using the gift that nature has endowed upon me to serve the needy. By doing this, I feel like I am helping those in my motherland.
School for Mentally Handicapped Children
In 2010, Krishna held her first exhibition featuring 30 paintings. She raised over £11,000 for the Sneh Nirjar Institute, a school for children with disabilities in Rajkot, India.