Virtual Exhibition - Still Life

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.

Niyati Mehta’s creative journey is shaped by experimentation, curiosity, and a desire to understand herself through art. Working across watercolour, graphite, acrylic, and oil, she gives herself the freedom to explore different techniques and visual possibilities rather than staying within the boundaries of one medium. Each material offers a new way to approach an idea, while the process itself becomes a form of personal discovery. Her practice reflects the belief that an artist’s visual language develops gradually through making, experimenting, and paying attention to what continues to feel meaningful. Personal experiences…