ARTIST BEHIND TARKA

I was born in Pakistan and grew up between Pakistan and the US. My culture: its food, its textiles, the community that gathers around both has been my safe place for as long as I can remember, and it's where almost everything I make begins.

I have painted since 2012, in gouache, oil pastels, and charcoal. These days it's an iPad and an Apple Pencil, a change that came quietly after my child was born. It mattered less than I expected. The muscle memory of drawing the thing you love most doesn't seem to care what the pencil is made of.

Designer by day, painter at night after my child is asleep. My design work is AI-first. My painting is the opposite hands over mind, back to the root. The two hold each other in place.

Artwork Made By Hand

Painted at night, after the kid goes down, on paper that shows every hour. Uneven & signed.

Commission Something

Tell me the thing you can't stop thinking about and I'll paint it. Kitchens, weddings, offices, the jokes four people will understand.

Objects Worth Keeping

Things for the kitchen, the desk, the wall made with an artist's eye instead of a manufacturer's. Not yet. Soon.

Lets Paint Together, Badly

Put people in a room and hand them a brush. Corporate offsites, birthdays, and the kind of gathering where nobody knows what to do with their hands.


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