I never imagined I would become an artist.

I graduated in Chemical Engineering and went on to spend more than a decade in the corporate world, working in a multinational Oil & Gas company across different roles — from business analysis and project management to process improvement and logistics.

From the outside, I had a career that seemed to make sense.

But towards the later years of my corporate life, especially after becoming a mother, something in me began to change.

I started feeling lost. Unfulfilled. As though the life I was living no longer quite belonged to me.

By 2015, that feeling had become strong enough to push me out of the corporate world.

I left to study for a Postgraduate Diploma in Teaching, and for a while became a tutor.

But leaving corporate did not answer the deeper questions.

In fact, the questions became louder.

In 2017, my search intensified. I began exploring spirituality, consciousness and the deeper meaning of life — trying to make sense of myself, my life, and what I was truly looking for.

Somewhere along that journey, I found mandala.

What began as an exploration gradually became a way of seeing, feeling and expressing what was happening within me.

My mandalas often begin with a question I am exploring.

Sometimes a challenge.

Sometimes a belief.

Sometimes a fear.

Sometimes a quiet longing I cannot yet put into words.

I do not paint because I have found all the answers.

I paint because I am willing to listen, to explore, and to see what reveals itself.

Each mandala becomes part of my own exploration — a meeting point between what I am experiencing within and what wants to take form through colour, pattern and movement.

Over time, I began to realise that my journey as an artist is inseparable from my journey through life.

The engineer, the corporate professional, the teacher, the mother, the seeker, the artist — none of these chapters were separate.

They were all part of the unfolding.

And perhaps this is what my journey is really about:

remembering, unfolding, and allowing life to express itself.