Babita Sridhar
"I paint animals to tell human stories about transformation, identity, and the courage it takes to become who you're meant to be"
Babita Sridhar is a Singapore-based abstract realism artist whose work explores identity, resilience, and transformation. After an 18-year career in IT, she left the corporate world to embrace motherhood an experience that led her to rediscover herself through painting. Art became her sanctuary: a way to process emotions, tell unspoken stories, and reconnect with buried parts of herself.
Her underwater series is a meditation on what lies beneath the surface - in water, and in ourselves. Aquatic life - koi, sea turtles, creatures of quiet endurance, become metaphors for how we move through life: adapting, pausing, enduring, yet deeply alive. Each canvas begins with bold, spontaneous abstraction, realistic form emerges through the layers, much as inner clarity forms through uncertainty. Working in oils, acrylics, spray paint, and texture, she believes art is both healing and purposeful and donates a portion of her sales to causes that reflect that conviction.
Widely exhibited across Singapore, she has participated in World Art Dubai 2024, 2025, and in the upcoming 2026 edition. She opened 2026 with a successful show at TheOther Art Fair in Los Angeles, and continues the year with Affordable Art Fair Hong Kong and further shows in Singapore to follow. Her works are held in private collections across Singapore, Australia, South Africa, the Middle East, and Los Angeles by collectors who recognise in her aquatic worlds something deeply familiar: the quiet strength it takes to keep moving beneath the surface.
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Stillness In Motion | Oils & Acrylics on Canvas | 91/91 cm | Year : 2025 | HKD 22,888 | In this piece, Koi fishes glide through still waters, the kind of motion that isn’t loud or visible, but is full of meaning. The corals and shells, and the rising bubbles are all reminders that even in stillness, we are moving, shaping and finding ourselves.
When Time Stands Still | Oils & Acrylics on Canvas | 91/91 cm | Year : 2025 | HKD 22,888 | In a world that constantly demands movement, there are rare pauses when everything slows and we feel the weight of time itself. In green depths, the turtle moves steadily, untouched by hurry, reminding us that the most powerful journeys are the quietest ones
SOLD Harmony | Oils & Acrylics on Canvas | 61/61 cm | Year : 2025 | Two koi move together through a shared current, each carrying its own weight and direction. This work reflects how harmony arises not from sameness, but from adjustment and adaptation to differences.
I Swim Alone | Oils & Acrylics on Canvas | 61/61 cm | Year : 2025 | HKD 10,888 | I swim alone is about facing the world on one’s own terms. It’s about the quiet strength that grows when we take charge of our own choices, learning to trust ourselves even when the path ahead is uncertain and no one else can walk it for us.
Silent Song | Oils & Acrylics on Canvas | 61/61 cm | Year : 2025 | HKD 10,888 | The world often overlooks those who move differently, who live on its edges. Surrounded by colour, texture, and movement, the koi stands strong refusing to blend in. This piece reflects the quiet power and dignity of those who inspire by simply being themselves.
SOLD Enough, As It Is | Oils & Acrylics on Canvas | 30/30 cm | Year : 2026 | This piece is rooted in the present, not the past or what comes next. It reflects a grounded awareness that this moment, in its incompleteness, is already sufficient. The turtle caught between rest and movement, stands as a symbol of steady presence, embracing the sufficiency of now.
Held, In Stillness | Oils & Acrylics on Canvas | 30/30 cm | Year : 2026 | HKD 3,188 | This piece explores stillness as an intentional act, not absence or retreat. It reflects the quiet power of rest in a culture that equates motion with value.
In Quiet Company | Oils & Acrylics on Canvas | 30/30 cm | Year : 2026 | HKD 3,188 | There are moments when silence feels full, and just a presence is enough. This painting celebrates that subtle understanding, the steady reassurance found in shared stillness.
At My Own Pace | Oils & Acrylics on Canvas | 30/30 cm | Year : 2026 | HKD 3,188 | Life doesn’t have to be a race, yet we often feel it is. The koi’s gentle turn through flowing currents mirror this choice to move with intention rather than urgency.This piece honours the courage it takes to live on our own terms, trusting the journey that unfolds at our pace.
Between Moments | Oils & Acrylics on Canvas | 30/30 cm | Year : 2026 | HKD 3,188 | Between moments, is about existing in transition, no longer who you were, not yet who you’re becoming. The painting holds that uncomfortable, honest space where growth happens quietly and without ceremony.The koi fish here mirrors this suspended state, embodying the quiet pause of transformation.
SOLD Belonging | Oils & Acrylics on Canvas | 30/30 cm | Year : 2026 | This work speaks to belonging as something built over time, not granted by others. It reflects the confidence that grows when you realise you don’t need permission to take up space.
Onwards | Oils & Acrylics on Canvas | 30/30 cm | Year : 2026 | HKD 3,188 | s reflects a phase where looking back no longer serves you. It is about directing energy ahead, accepting what’s behind without needing closure or explanation.
You & I | Oils & Acrylics on Canvas | 61/48 cm | Year : 2026 | HKD 7,588 | Some connections don't need words! Just the same water, the same direction, the same quiet knowing that wherever this current leads, you won't be going alone.
SOLD Drift | Oils & Acrylics on Canvas | 30/61 cm | Year : 2026 | Not all movement needs a destination! Sometimes the most courageous thing is to let the current carry you, trusting that where you end up is exactly where you were meant to be.
SOLD Adrift | Oils & Acrylics on Canvas | 30/61 cm | Year : 2026 | To be unmoored is not the same as being lost. It is the in-between space where you release what no longer fits and wait, open for what comes next.
In The Deep | Oils & Acrylics on Canvas | 61/30 cm | Year : 2026 | HKD 4,888 | The deep does not judge, rush, or worry. It simply exists, boundless and unhurried and in its presence, we are reminded that most of what troubles us is far smaller than it feels.
Zi Zai | Oils & Acrylics on Canvas | 61/30 cm | Year : 2026 | HKD 4,888 | Zi Zai - to be completely at ease within oneself, moving through the world without resistance or pretence. This single Koi asks nothing of the water and the water asks nothing of it. They simply belong to each other.