Naksha, 2024

Textile – Chikankari (Urdu: چِکن کاری, Hindi: चिकन की कढ़ाई, चिकनकारी).

Chikankari is a traditional form of embroidery originating from Lucknow, India, known for its delicate and intricate shadow work, traditionally done in white-on-white on fine muslin fabric.

The term naksha can refer to the design or pattern used in this craft. The artwork is a building’s elevation plan that is covered with the shadows of two mango trees that frame the structure.

Embroidery on cotton

35 x 45 inches

Layers of Building, 2024

Material Memories: Patterns in Structure and Fabric

A series of drawings exploring the textures and patterns found in both architecture and fabric construction. Through collected objects, sketches, and visual studies, the work draws connections between the structural rhythms of buildings and the tactile intricacy of textiles.

Blending observation with memory, the drawings form a layered archive of material experiences, revealing how both built and woven surfaces shape personal material memories. Continues to be an ongoing series, further adding more and more layers

Silkscreen print on handmade paper

8 x 12 inches

Khadaan II, 2024

A series done on handmade paper, dyed in natural indigo vats, with drawings transferred by screen printing. The series explores the naksha (chart or map) or to map something: the layout of a garden, a building, the first piece of imagination, how the parts of it are arranged, the plan of building a space, taking and adding to the earth through construction.

/khadāna/ 1. nf. quarry countable noun. A quarry is an area that is dug out from a piece of land or mountainside in order to extract stone, slate, or minerals.

Cotton pulp paper, indigo dye and serigraphy

12 x 18 inches

Khadaan I, 2024

The series reflects on acts of construction: taking from the earth, planning, and re-imagining it. The title, from khadāna (quarry), evokes both extraction and creation — a negotiation between loss and form.

/khadāna/ 1. nf. quarry countable noun. A quarry is an area that is dug out from a piece of land or mountainside in order to extract stone, slate, or minerals.

Serigraphy on paper, silk screen print (single edition)

11.5 x 18 inches

Sarai, 2024

A series of drawings on rest and rootedness.

Sarai explores spaces of rest through a series of drawings that weave together architecture and nature. Inspired by the dual meanings of the word — a resting place for travelers and the sal tree (Shorea robusta) — the works imagine courtyards, pavilions, and open structures where built forms and nature meet, framing each other.

The series reflects on the idea of sanctuary, blurring the lines between shelter and landscape, permanence and transience. Sarai invites viewers to consider how spaces — both human-made and natural — offer refuge, stillness, and a momentary pause in the midst of movement.

Drawings, Ink on paper

8 x 12 inches

Soil and Seeds, 2024

The series, explores the fertility of the soil, the reddish brown hues are natural pigments made from earth. The layers of soil that grow the seed pods, with layers of concrete and buildings constructed on earth.

Earth pigments on paper

11.5 x 18 inches

Rain, 2023

A series that plays with visuals of fertile soil, rain and harvest. A visual memory of rain and the smell of wet earth.

Serigraphy on paper

18 x 24 inches

Patterns of Intensity, 2021

Featured on India Art Fair →

Watercolour, pen and ink on paper

8 x 12 inches

Inside — Outside, 2019

Ink on gateway paper and oil pastels

16.5 x 24 inches

Liminality, 2016

Liminality is a series of artworks capturing the ‘Absence and presence of a space’, remembering the scapes through visual patterns all works are created through memory, documenting stories and textures.

Brown ink, rotring isograph pen on paper

22 x 18 inches