Jaiya is a UK born painter and self-taught portrait artist. Trained as a meditation teacher and inspired by the power of creativity to invoke relaxation, self-awareness and community bonding, she designs commissioning and learning experiences that take viewers, clients and students on an artistic spiritual journey.

In personal works Jaiya explores the collective relationship to myths and archetypes. Exploring life cycles of destruction, creation and abundance, and ritualistic experiences such as Abhyanga and Satsang, she captures the human journey through a spiritual eye. Several works explore the association of the different tastes found in Ayurveda to emotions, using Indian pop-culture imagery to depict each emotion. These works have been exhibited in several locations including Philadelphia’s City Hall.

She designs group and individual learning experiences in which art and play open a space for freedom of expression, building self­ confidence and stronger community relationships. This includes women’s empowerment workshops, finding creativity workshops and place-making initiatives to engage guests from a local homeless shelter in “Colour Splash” workshops, inspired by the Hindu festival of colour, Holi. Jaiya was invited to The Rubin Museum of Art in New York to teach her Finding Saraswati Workshop as part of the museum’s year of POWER.

Now in Herts she delivers workshops and commissions locally!