about me

"Once upon a pattern, with watercolour, gouache, and chai, 

I started turning curious little daydreams into designs. 

Layered with folklore, botanicals, and stories wandering free..

Welcome to my whimsical world, and a little about me."

I have been an artist since I was five years old. Growing up in a small city in India, where a career in art was not exactly the expected path, I was naturally and stubbornly drawn to colour, detail, and the quiet pleasure of making things beautiful.

The Beginning 

Much of that came from home. My mother was a textile enthusiast and a cutting and tailoring instructor, and watching her embroider fabrics, stitch my clothes, and design them with her own hands was my first design education. She dressed me like her doll, and I sat beside her making my own dolls from scratch, dressing them with her leftover fabrics, running my own quiet little experiments with thread and textile. I did not know it then, but I was already a designer.

My Roots

My father brought a different kind of knowing. His family were farmers, and he carried that deep connection to the land with him always, tending to every native flower and vegetable in our garden and narrating to me the stories of plants and birds with the patience of someone who understood that nature has a language of its own. He taught me about the Neel-kanth, the Indian Roller bird, its cultural meaning and sacred symbolism in India, considered auspicious and deeply connected to the divine. He came from a community where nothing was wasted, where every scrap was made into something useful. From him I inherited my instinct for functionality, for sustainability, and for finding beauty in the overlooked. My love of botanicals, birds, and nature in my work is not just aesthetic. It is memory.

Finding My Path

Moving to New Delhi for NIFT (National Institute of Fashion Technology) was its own kind of awakening. Suddenly I was surrounded by people from every corner of India, each carrying their own visual culture, textiles, and aesthetic. It was competitive, humbling, and completely exhilarating. I had to prove myself and I decided to do it head on. NIFT taught me how to channel raw creativity into purposeful, market-ready design, and my favourite corner of it was always Print Design. My print faculty, who I suspect still remembers every one of my more adventurous experiments with a mix of fondness and mild horror, shaped the way I think about surface and pattern to this day.

From NIFT I stepped straight into the textile industry and spent the next eight years learning from the best. Experienced professionals, master artisans, export houses, buying houses, and some of India’s most respected fashion designers. I worked alongside Jaipur’s block printers, Maheshwari silk weavers, and the adda embroiderers of New Delhi. Each taught me something my sketchbook could not: that craft is a conversation, that making is a form of knowledge, and that the relationship between a designer and an artisan is one of the most quietly powerful things in the creative world.

Building Artily Designs

In 2020 I made the leap to full-time freelancing and have not looked back since. I went back to school for my MA in Fibers at SCAD (Savannah College of Art & Design), consistently ranked as America's top university for art and design, because a design enthusiast simply cannot help herself, relocated to Oregon with my lovely husband, and somewhere in between collected honours from Kravet, Rubelli, the ITA, the IDA International Design Awards, and the Outstanding Achievement Award from SCAD (2025) that genuinely made me cry happy tears. I share these not to boast, but because they remind me that following the obsession is always worth it.

My time at SCAD gave me the language to articulate what I had always felt as a designer, and the confidence to build something entirely my own.

And so Artily Designs was born. My studio, my creative home, my one-woman operation that I insist on calling a studio because that is exactly what it is. It is where everything comes together: the five year old with leftover fabric, the girl who learned bird names from her father, the designer who found her tribe at NIFT, the woman who spent eight years learning from the best, and the Pisces who simply cannot stop making things beautiful.

My Dream

My dream is to bridge global textile traditions with contemporary design, to bring artisan craft into modern dialogues and remind the world that heritage and contemporary aesthetics do not just coexist. They make each other better. It is a journey that began with India’s extraordinary craft heritage, and one I am still very much on.