Virtual Exhibition - Still Life

Payal Jain’s journey across more than three decades of fashion has evolved into a deeply personal exploration of textile as an artistic medium. Growing up surrounded by art, music, architecture, literature, and nature, she came to see fashion as a way of bringing those influences together, while always considering herself an artist first. For Payal, textiles carry far more than visual beauty. They hold cultural memory, generations of knowledge, and the imprint of the human hand. Her long-standing collaborations with artisans across India have shaped her understanding of craftsmanship, patience, and…

Manuela Prince, who works under the name Alma Colours, creates delicate watercolours inspired by nature’s colours, beauty, and strength. Based in Abu Dhabi, her work brings butterflies and botanicals together as symbols of hope, transformation, renewal, and new beginnings. After years away from art, Manuela returned to drawing during a difficult period in her life, eventually discovering watercolour and finding in it a way back to beauty, nature, and creativity. Today, her luminous paintings use transparent layers of colour to create atmospheric works that invite viewers to slow down and reconnect…

Annie Richard’s intricate beadwork brings together nature, geometry, mathematics, memory, and a deeply meditative creative process. Since discovering bead embroidery in 2019, she has worked with thousands of individual glass beads to create detailed compositions featuring mandalas, circular forms, and geometric patterns. Inspired in part by her mother’s lifelong connection to beadwork, Annie sees mathematics and art as complementary ways of understanding the world. Her recent use of watercolour beneath the beadwork adds a more fluid and unexpected element to her otherwise precise practice.