The first four years of my life were spent switching continents (Asia, Europe, South America and finally North America). My family settled in a small town in Central California called Arroyo Grande. My mother told me elaborate stories of her family in Sri Lanka where men walked on fire, cobras danced, and certain people could tell the future.

As a child, I spent long hours using playing cards to tell myself stories trying to decipher my strange personal universe. Luckily, I came from a family of artists and was given art materials at an early age. This good fortune provided me tools to explore my connection to the rest of the world.

I use symbols, societal themes, and color sense collected from my background and travels in India, Sri Lanka and Europe. Often my work encompasses a story, a narration that needs a sense of more than one culture to decipher. Each painting is a narration that tells a story.