Paintings
Featured Paintings
As I am drawn to nature, my paintings reflect my explorations of unique elements in nature and inspiring landscapes. I find that being a painter and interior designer with a focus on realism has made me appreciate beauty in details that are often overlooked by society’s big picture outlook.
Flowers and Feathers 2
2025
Inspired by photographs I took of tulips and macaws, this painting is a personal composition that explores the graceful harmony between the delicate petals of tulips and the vivid feathers of a macaw. It celebrates the vibrant colors, fragile beauty, and striking contrasts found in nature, highlighting how seemingly different elements can coexist in a unified, expressive whole.
Sojourning in Florist's Daisies
2025
Florist’s Daisy, also known as the Hardy Garden Mum (Chrysanthemum morifolium), is the muse for this 16in x 20in acrylic painting.
Inspired by a captivating arrangement I encountered at the Hartford Convention Centre Garden Show, I was drawn to the intricate curls and folds of the petals. As I studied them closely, the play of shadows and highlights revealed a quiet drama that I felt compelled to capture.
My work is influenced by Georgia O’Keeffe’s bold and intimate portrayals of flowers. Her words deeply resonate with me: “When you take a flower in your hand and really look at it, it's your world for the moment. I want to give that world to someone else.”
With this piece, I invite the viewer to step into that moment of wonder — to pause, look closely, and find a world within the bloom.
Mother & Child
2025
This 12in x 16in mixed media acrylic painting is inspired from a photograph I had taken many years ago when we visited one of our students and her baby boy in Dodoma, Tanzania. I kept the artwork partly raw by blending in the mother’s hands into the background to convey my understanding of being a mother.
As a mother, I feel I go through a whole spectrum of emotions often. From the doubts to the reassurances, the frustrations to the laughters, the messiness and worries to sheer beauty and love. I guess that’s what motherhood is all about.
Wishing a Happy Mother’s Day to all the remarkable mothers, grandmothers, aunts, soon to be mothers and mother figures who inspire me with their strength and dedication."
Flowers and Feathers
2025
This 12in x 16in acrylic painting is inspired from a photo of a swamp orchid or Nun’s hood orchid that my sisters in-law shared with me when they vacationed in Costa Rica. The white pleated leaves fan out with a flower at the center, attracting hummingbirds and other pollinators. I included a hummingbird to highlight the magic of symbiotic relationships that exist all around us.
As Spring bursts forth in North America amidst the shadows of uncertain times, my hope is that this piece will inspire us to find wisdom in nature and feel renewed with the sense of awe all over again.
A Virginia Fall 2
2025
This piece was inspired from a photograph my parents had taken when they visited Williamsburg, Virginia. The brilliant colors of fall are a distant reality in many parts of the northern hemisphere where it is cold, grey and dreary (for some).
Like the changing seasons, we as a human race, as a community and as individuals are constantly changing, going through our own seasons of pause, budding, bloom and growth.
Magic Wings
2024
This is a series of three paintings inspired from pictures I took following a swallowtail butterfly while walking in my aunt’s garden. Each painting is on an 8in x 10in canvas board.
As children one of the first things we learn about Creation is the metamorphosis of the creepy, crawly, hungry caterpillar to a fluttering, beautiful butterfly.
Butterflies are known for their beauty and cultural symbolism in many countries. Some people believe that they are symbols of resurrection and transformation. As a Christian I can’t help but notice the parallels drawn between Jesus’s death and resurrection and the metamorphic life of the caterpillar.
These ever so delicate winged creatures flutter from flower to flower fulfilling their role as caretakers of our planet.
Like these magical wings, Creation is filled with marvelous wonders, holding secrets and stories, waiting to be discovered and shared if only we can keep our curiosity fluttering.
Moments become Memories
2024
From the moment I took this picture ten years ago, I have wanted to paint it for my maternal grandfather, Appacha. Unfortunately, i never got around to painting it for him. And now I paint it for my grandmother, my older son and myself.
Walking a few feet behind them, witnessing my grandfather and my older son holding hands and chatting (about something I can't seem to remember) will be a special moment that will live on in my memory.
I am thinking of my dear grandfather who would have been 96 years old today. A man of few words- but his kind, generous gestures spoke louder than his words.
This painting is an attempt to capture what I witnessed and felt, where everthing around fades out. what truly remains is the bond of love and friendship between a great- grandfather and a great-grandson. Aren't moments like that etched in our memories forever?
Boy in the Pink Jacket
2024
He has just said goodbye to his grandparents at the airport and is homeward bound on the subway with his Appa (father). He sits in silence looking out the window as the train whizzes through varied landscapes. Not being able to express himself in words; his body language suggests he is processing emotions that are welling up inside him. This 8x10 acrylic brush and knife painting is inspired by a photograph my brother took of his son. The intention of using brush and knife strokes is representative of the mixed emotions the little boy is experiencing.
The Story of Two Pinecones
2023
Dear humans, Many of you see us dangling on trees or most definitely lying on the ground. Many probably ignore us. Some of you pick us up, scrutinize us and toss us back. The eccentric ones (like the one who painted us on this 8 x 10 canvas, in acrylic medium) pick us up and bring us to their homes. They use us as decorations over the holidays, then store us in plastic bins and reuse us year after year. But have you wondered about the story behind us… To begin with we are the woody fruit of the pine tree and house seeds for the next generation.
We come in various shapes and sizes. The spiral arrangement of our scales not only serve as a protective covering for the seeds within, but our arrangement is so amazingly precise, and we are proud to display nature’s geometry! Along with providing sustenance for different creatures, we have been cherished for our symbolic significance by the human race. We have been used as decorative elements, religious symbols, and even in traditional medicine. The pineal gland in the human brain is named after us because of its shape. The pineal gland controls the human body’s perception of light, as well as their wake and sleep patterns. It has long been considered the human biological “third eye” and “the epi-center of enlightenment.”
Frozen Tree
2023
From the burning bush that Moses witnessed in Mount Horeb to the frozen tree that my brother encountered in Toronto on one of his morning jogs and took a picture of a couple of years ago- nature speaks to us in different ways, if we can only pause to listen. This painting is inspired from a breathtaking photograph that my brother Josh took a few years ago on one of his morning jogs along the Toronto waterfront. The moment I saw the photograph I knew I wanted to recreate it in paint and in the process, I discovered hidden details that I had failed to see at first glance.
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