ABOUT

I grew up in Hyderabad, India, absorbing the textures around me: graffiti dissolving over old stone, temple walls darkened by monsoon, the silk of my mother's saris against my hands. My grandfather was a poet. My father a geologist. I learned early that surfaces hold time, and that what endures always leaves a mark.

I came to painting in 2019, when an experience at a meditation retreat opened something that language couldn't reach. What began as a search inward became a body of work I call Humanscapes, paintings about the interior life we share. A small figure, often a child, inhabits deeply layered grounds, held within them the way memory is held.

I believe that if you go inward far enough, the interior is shared. These paintings are an invitation to recognize yourself, and in doing so, to recognize each other.

My work has been exhibited at Harvard University, Palmer Art Gallery in New York,  and at art fairs including Spectrum Miami, ArtExpo New York, and The Other Art Fair in New York and Los Angeles. I was named a finalist in the Artist's Magazine Best of Acrylic Works in 2025.

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"You are not a drop in the ocean. You are the entire ocean in a drop." — Rumi