Shruti Jhaveri

Shruti Jhaveri was born in Antwerp, Belgium, in 1978, and trained at the Royal Academy of Fine Arts there before setting up her studio in Mumbai in 2006. Nearly two decades later, Shruti Jhaveri Art has become one of India’s most recognisable names in bespoke mixed-media work — not because of loud branding, but because her pieces have a way of quietly rewriting the feel of any space they enter.

Her style is difficult to pin to a single school. She works in mixed media; she sculpts with upcycled, chemically-treated paper to create three-dimensional forms that look almost geological; she layers texture, colour, and form until a piece hums with presence. She is drawn, again and again, to nature — particularly the underwater world — and to what she calls “life’s basic principles.” Her collections speak these themes plainly in their names. The Age of Innocence visualises life’s foundational truths. Fragile Terrains recreates the beauty of underwater forms. The Five Elements captures fire, water, earth, and air in abstract gesture. The Bespoke Texture Art collection is her most experimental — pure mixed media, uninhibited.

What sets Shruti’s practice apart from a conventional artist’s studio is her approach to the client. She doesn’t just make art; she ideates, conceptualises, and curates art for specific spaces. A home with a particular colour story, a boutique hotel with a narrative, a corporate lobby that needs a focal point — Shruti works with interior designers and directly with homeowners to find the piece or series that will finish the room the way a final line finishes a poem. Her clients speak of her as a collaborator rather than a supplier: someone who understands a vision and then enlarges it.

Over two decades, she has participated in more than twenty-five art and interior exhibitions across the globe, and her work has been featured in numerous design publications. Her ambition is modest and generous at once: to add, as she puts it, “a little magic” to every space she touches. In a world that buys art increasingly flat, digital, and disposable, Shruti’s textured, tactile, hand-worked pieces offer something rarer — the quiet presence of something made slowly, by a human hand, with intent.