Just to share a bit more about myself -- this was my A Level artwork! It was an installation art painting diptych done on acrylic sheets with enamel paint, through a process of pouring and manipulation. I wanted to capture and communicate the feeling of restoration that I feel whenever I sit by a vast body of water, absolutely enamored and captivated by the tide and how finite I feel in comparison. (This motif of the ocean continues in my work now!)

It was my first time producing an artwork with so many months of thought put into it, and I recall it with great fondness. It was also my first time venturing into abstraction, which now informs my painting style because of the incredible potential that abstraction offers us to feel and encounter, as opposed to a realistic rendering of an object or landscape.



Fast forward through graduation and exploring the world beyond school, a small abstract painting I made for a client when I was busy planning weddings, and a school trip to India where I produced a painting to capture what the city of Bhopal felt like to me, and Awaken Studios was born. I had been painting for myself for a while because I enjoyed it, storing the small works under my bed.