
Self-taught, and painting for the joy of it. Every brushstroke is her way of finding light, and her own voice.

Painting is worked entirely by hand, motif by motif, before anything is joined to the cloth. It cannot be rushed and it cannot be machined — which is why every piece differs slightly from the last.
This is a description of the technique, not of Ashima. How she came to it, and what she would say about it, is hers to tell.
Her success, our strength.Narimade
Each piece carries the name of the woman whose hands finished it.