Bangladeshi artist wins IWS acclaim

An amateur Bangladeshi watercolorist, Dr. Debobrata Aich Mojumdar, has won the 11th place in an online watercolor competition by the International Watercolor Society (IWS). His watercolor on handmade paper, “Mermaid” won the honours at the IWS Iran's Online Facebook Contest this week. The contest, held from March 1-15, was judged by a diverse pool of 10 jurors from Iran, Albania, Malta, India, China and Hong Kong.

Iraqi artist Zaid AlZaidy's “Girl From The South” won the first prize at the contest.

Dr. Debabrota is a physician from the K-61 batch of Dhaka Medical College, and mostly displays his artworks online. His entry, “Mermaid”, show's a girl's face partially submerged in water. It has an interesting juxtaposition of styles; some parts of it are meticulously realistic, while other parts throw in abstraction, of the sea and a sandy beach. His Facebook page, “Debabrota's World of Dream”, also shows his interest in using various kinds of media, like sand, fire and smoke.