Pinali is a self-taught artist who began sharing her work with the world only recently but art has lived with her far longer than any title or role ever did.
After spending more than a decade building a successful career in the corporate world, she stepped away not in rebellion, but to return to something more personal. Her anchor in that return was what had always quietly stayed with her: her art.
Raised in a family and a society that reserved its respect for degrees in engineering, medicine, or administrative service, Pinali often found herself walking a quieter, middle path, one of gentle negotiation between what the world expected and what her inner voice quietly wanted. She went on to earn degrees that took her to some of India’s top institutions and boardrooms. But alongside those milestones, she always kept close to a world of creativity that never quite left her.
That balance worked for a while. The success, the structure, the pace it brought joy, and also exhaustion. Slowly, something deeper began to stir. She started noticing how we lose touch with ourselves, with stillness, and with what it means to live fully. And in that noticing, she felt the pull to return to herself, to her senses, and to the version of her that existed before the roles.
Not with a plan, but with an ache.
To observe more closely.
To live more slowly.
To make again with her hands, with her eyes, with her attention.
Pinali’s work spans digital art, oil, charcoal, pencil, fabric, and mixed media. But in recent years, her focus has turned toward one recurring subject: the body, and all that it carries when words fall short. The sag of shoulders. The stillness in limbs. The stories are told through gesture and weight.
She works often in charcoal on canvas, drawn to its raw, unpredictable nature. She describes it as a medium that resists control and thus beautifully holds the raw emotions of her art, one that mirrors her own independent yet empathetic soul.
Her pieces don’t shout. They stay with you. They don’t always tell a story but they ask you to look closer at your own.
While she’s still exploring her own questions, one thing remains clear in her work: a deep longing for people to reconnect with the human being beneath the roles they play. To feel, to pause, and to return to themselves.
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