About Me
Textiles Design Graduate, Surface Pattern Designer and Illustrator
A multi-disciplinary Textile Artist and Illustrator, specialising in both traditional and digital Surface Print Design. I am endlessly fascinated by stories, implementing strong narratives throughout my pattern collections in rich textures and vibrant colours. The best inspiration can be found from our personal histories and how they inform our present lives.
Human lives revolve around stories. We are raised absorbing fairy tales, fables, legend, lore and most poignantly, collections of family anecdotes. Children who grow in the presence of grandparents and family elders are often privy to stories of old and gold and are blessed with retellings of life in a time so vastly different to their present day. But when one’s ancestry stretches beyond the borders, to a country far from what one considers their current home, trying to imagine the lives of far-gone ancestors that brought us to this point becomes even more difficult and often intangible.
INSPIRATION
Homeland Reverie recalls lost ancestral stories from the disconnect of the Third generation
As British Indian Muslim girl and a third-generation immigrant, I have multiple identities that feel completely natural to me. I live in an increasingly diverse part of the UK, easily accepting my Gujarati origins in relation to my British lifestyle and religious upbringing, yet never having a real connection with my grandparents’ homeland of Gujarat, never delving into the specifics of how I got here. But this limited understanding of the homeland comes with its own generational crisis.
What do I actually know about my history and heritage? Who were my grandparents before they moved, where specifically did they come from, and what is this gap in the story of my ancestry? The project navigates a familiar concept of traditional storytelling through fables and folklore across the world. I explore artistic interpretations unique to my origins, that aid in communicating a story effectively through the lens of my ancestral country’s culture and personal family history.
MY WORK
PORTFOLIOS
COLLECTION CONCEPT
COLOUR BOARD
TEXTILE AND PRINT STORY
SHAPE AND MOTIF INSPIRATION
MOTIF DEVELOPMENT
PRINT SAMPLING
PRINT DEVELOPMENT
OUTCOME REFINEMENT
NARRATIVE SCARF DESIGNS
NARRATIVE SHAWL DESIGNS
LOOKBOOK
LOOKBOOK
LOOKBOOK
CONTEXTUAL ILLUSTRATED BOOK
OPENING PAGE SPREAD
STORY SAMPLER
DETAIL
Worn stories and an illustrative celebration of history and heritage
Progressing through the lens of tactile storytelling, I reconstruct the stories of a bygone era in my family history, immortalising them through print and pattern. The vibrant scarf collection serves as a physical body of work that can be worn and carried around to symbolise how these stories live on. I further bring the original stories of simple village memories to life in my book with poetic writing and detailed illustrations, creating a significance so they can be retold to my descendants akin to the fairy tales, fables, and folklore we heard in childhood.
"We are not makers of history. We are made by history." - Martin Luther King Jr.
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