Why I Paint: Art as a Practice of Remembering

I didn’t always know I was a painter.

I came to art through grief, through questions that had no language, through a longing to understand what it means to be human. After years working as a business consultant—building brands, launching projects, and supporting clients around the world—I realized something essential was missing.

During a period of deep personal change, I completed my yoga teacher training. It expanded me philosophically and spiritually, teaching me how to sit with discomfort, listen inward, and trust what arises. That same listening is what eventually led me to paint.

Painting became a way to process, to remember, to soften. Each piece is created slowly and intuitively—layer by layer—allowing emotion, memory, and meaning to emerge rather than be forced.

My work is not about decoration. It’s about connection. It’s an invitation to pause, to feel, and to remember that we are not separate—from each other, from nature, or from ourselves.

Om Shanti Studio exists as a sanctuary for this kind of seeing. A place where art becomes a mirror, and beauty becomes a quiet form of truth.