My name is Nisha and I am a South Asian children’s book illustrator with a passion to create loveable characters in whimsical worlds!

Born in India and raised in the Middle-East, I developed a deep appreciation for rich colours, detail and culture. I have always had the passion to create. When I was around 6 years old, my ‘Ammamma aka my grandmother’ introduced me to her sewing machine. I spent hours of my summer holidays on it and I enjoyed making little clothes for my dolls and bears. Obviously, when the time came, I chose fabric as my preferred medium of creative expression and decided to become a Fashion Designer.

Through my years in Fashion school, I was repeatedly told, that my fashion illustration style was too “cutsey” and probably more children’s wear appropriate. It broke my heart a bit, because I wanted to design clothes for women, not kids! Soon I graduated and worked in fast fashion for more than a decade and a half! Even then, I would always find myself drawing fun characters wearing cool runway trends! Now that I look back, I see - I always had a little bit of that ‘story telling’ somewhere in my artistic soul!