I’m Ramsha, the artist and founder behind The Inkling Studio. Through The Inkling Studio, I create custom illustrated portraits and hand-finished mixed-media artwork from the reference images people entrust to me.

I am a storyteller, drawn to simplifying the complex without diminishing its depth. I move between the visual and the written, the told and the untold, trying to give shape to things that might otherwise remain fleeting.

Much of that begins with paying attention. I notice the way light falls across a face. The shape of a room. The expression someone makes when they think no one is looking. The many shades of grey, but also every color in the rainbow. The tiny details that make a person unmistakably themselves, a place impossible to forget, a memory yours and no one else’s.

My art lives somewhere between what I notice and what I imagine. I take what I see, what I remember, and give it another life. A visual one. Something you can see, hold, hang on a wall, and perhaps return to years from now.

I studied art and design for my bachelor’s degree, but life had other places to take me. I went on to study education and international development, and my professional life eventually found its way into education and community work. Art was never quite the professional road I traveled, but it was always running alongside me.

So I kept creating.

Mostly for people I loved. A portrait here, a painting there. Then came work, motherhood, and the beautiful, relentless chaos of a full life. Somewhere within all that noise, art became the place I returned to.

When the house finally sleeps, I often don’t.

I stay up with a sketch, an unfinished face, colors spread across the table, or an idea I cannot quite leave until morning. Those late hours have become a little world of their own. No deadlines. No one needing anything from me. Just curiosity, imagination, and the pleasure of watching something that existed only in my head slowly become visible.

Maybe that is why sharing this part of myself more widely feels both exciting and a little terrifying.

For years, my art belonged to a very small circle. I am, by nature, a private person, and sharing something so personal with people I have never met feels a little like opening a door I have always kept half closed.

But here I am.