Dr. Arpitha Parthasarathy Arpitha Parthasarathy, PhD is a trained artist, jewellery designer, hand embroidery, fabric painting, yoga teacher and a Biomedical Scientist She has been making paintings for her passion since the age of 3 using various media. She was trained in water color and oil on canvas from India and learnt the ancient form of traditional India art (Mysore art/Tranjore art). She was introduced to scratch board medium fine art by Ms. Kathy Conroy, a well known scratchboard artist in the field where she met her in one of the art shows in Kentucky. Arpitha, is a resident of Maryland and uses her extensive creative abilities and skills to continue her passion for Fine Art. She enjoys making her own scratch board when time permits and loves the ampersand white and black board medium with either water color or clayboard inks. Her passion for the nature and aesthetics and portraits has been of current interests through scratchboard. Her art was displayed at Zenith Gallery’s 20th year celebration in March 2015, Washington DC and she is a member of the Delaplaine Art Gallery, Fredrick. 2014 - She is an active member of International Scratchboard Society and her art was juried to be considered as an Active ISSA member She has been elected as the Exhibition – Director for of International Scratchboard Society, 2015 and is looking forward to the exciting show in Maryland to popularize Scratchboard Medium. Member of Maryland Federation of Arts, MD http://mdfedart.com/member-list/ Member of Delaplaine Art Gallery,Fredrick, MD Member of Zenith Art Gallery,Washington DC http://www.zenithgallery.com/artists/Parthasarathy,%20Arpitha/Arpitha%20Paintings.htm Please contact arpitha@arpithaexponent.com to Purchase Scrachboard artwork