Capturing spirit. Ensnaring place.

Daksha is a multidisciplinary artist whose work explores love, perception, and the interplay between inner and outer worlds. Working across painting and mixed media, her practice includes abstract portraiture, a self-portrait series, and contemplative works inspired by place, memory, and felt experience.She paints abstract portraits of people she loves, alongside a sustained self-portrait practice born from a turning inward—an exploration of self-love after years of directing energy outward. These works are less about likeness than presence, holding the emotional and energetic traces of relationship, care, and attention. Painting becomes a practice of falling in love again and again, with self, with others, and with life itself.Daksha also paints places she loves and creates works that arise directly from emotional states, allowing color and gesture to carry feeling without narrative constraint. Having grown up in Singapore and lived in Scotland and the United States, her work is shaped by multiple cultural landscapes and ways of seeing, and by a sensitivity to transition, belonging, and return.Color is core to her work. Drawing inspiration from Aura-Soma, crystals, and gemstone traditions, she works with vibrant palettes intuitively yet with restraint, treating colour as both emotional language and energetic structure. Her background in physics and anthropology informs an underlying attentiveness to light, pattern, and human connection, while meditative practice grounds her creative process in stillness and presence.