At the heart of my work is something personal. Growing up as a neurodivergent woman, I often struggled to understand who I was outside the expectations placed on me. My Indo-Caribbean and Indian heritage, spirituality and interest in colour became ways of exploring that question. Art gave me somewhere to put feelings I couldn’t always explain, and the freedom to respond with my own marks.

The Painting That Began It All

I Am Enough  was one painting, made at a time when I needed to understand what those words meant for myself. I held a citrine crystal in my hand as I painted, drawing on the energy I felt from it as part of a spiritual practice connected to my culture. Its warmth came through in the colour. Other instinctual feelings came through in the marks.

I wasn’t painting an affirmation I had already mastered. I was working through a question: what is being enough? what if being enough isn’t a destination you finally reach? That canvas held things I couldn’t yet say aloud. It became the starting point for the ongoing I Am Enough collection and, eventually, for JADE PEARL. This is where I realised that identity is creative. The colours we choose, the things we make, the pieces we wear, and the parts of ourselves we choose to reveal or reclaim can all become expressions of who we are.

My Art and Creative Process

I work intuitively, responding to the colours, textures, movements and emotions that emerge as I paint. I build layers, change direction and let one mark lead to another. I often paint to jazz; its rhythm and improvisation help me loosen my thinking and follow unexpected directions on the canvas.

Spirituality, cultural memory and colour psychology also inform my practice. I’m interested in what a colour can stir in someone, what a gesture can hold, and how two people can meet the same painting with entirely different stories. The meaning of a piece grows through making it, and through the person who lives with it.

My original artworks remain at the heart of JADE PEARL. Their colours, marks and ideas carry into prints and wearable art, taking on new forms while remaining connected to the canvas. That might mean an abstract art print in someone’s home, or a painting’s visual language finding its way into clothing, a bag, lifestyle pieces, accessories or a piece of jewellery. Each is a different way to encounter the work and make it part of your own expression.

The zigzag that runs through my art and jewellery speaks to movement, change and a path that rarely unfolds in a straight line. Jade and pearl are materials I return to, often set against industrial chains. Together, these details make the jewellery part of the same world as the paintings.

Beyond the Canvas

I studied Textile Design at the University of the Arts London. Since then, my practice has moved across illustration, creative direction, fashion, live events and brand projects. My work has included projects involving Levi’s, Reebok, Southern Comfort, Foot Locker, Adidas and Mercedes-Benz × Lewis Hamilton. I’ve also created artwork for Will Smith’s book launch and worked on an Absolut project connected with Andy Warhol at Saatchi Gallery.

Those experiences showed me how far an artist’s visual language can travel. A painting can live on a wall, but its ideas can also become something a person wears, carries or encounters in public. That possibility continues to shape what I make.

Alongside my artwork, I run Expression Lab, creative workshops where people can explore colour, materials and their own way of making. I hold an Art Therapy Practitioner certificate, and my sessions draw on instinctive, expressive and sensory approaches. Some people come to learn and experiment with art; others come for space to decompress and reconnect with themselves. There is no single result everyone has to produce.

You Are The Art

I don’t want my work to be something you only look at. I want it to make you pause, feel something and perhaps see part of your own story differently.

You Are The Art is the philosophy connecting my paintings, prints, wearable art and workshops. We are shaped by culture, memory, experience and the way others see us. We also have a hand in what we make of those things. We can choose the next mark. We are the artists of our lives. 

You are enough. You are the art. You are the masterpiece.

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