Projects (4)

Bodies of work

MS Subbalakshmi

These portraits are my attempt to sit with greatness and not look away. Each face belongs to a woman whose music or movement has outlived every attempt to define it and watercolour, with all its unpredictability, felt like the only honest way to approach them. I wasn't trying to capture a likeness; I was trying to capture the feeling of being in the presence of someone who has given their whole life to their art.

London in Gouache

London gave me its parks when I needed quiet, and these paintings are my way of holding onto that. There's something about the way light moves through those trees that particular green, heavy and hopeful at once that I kept trying to chase. Gouache felt right because it doesn't pretend; every mark stays exactly where you put it.

Fragments Charcoal

This series began with an obsession, what hands remember that the rest of the body forgets. Each piece isolates a gesture, a reach, a barely-there touch, letting the charcoal do what words can't: hold that moment between connection and letting go. The white of the page isn't empty it's the space where everything unspoken lives.

All projects

01MS Subbalakshmi10 pieces 02London in Gouache7 pieces 03Fragments Charcoal13 pieces 04The Summit Collection7 pieces