Jaweria Imran | A House I Never Knew

A textile designer turned painter, art instructor, and entrepreneur, Jaweria Imran is driven by texture and inspired by the endless possibilities of colour, composition, and visual storytelling. Working primarily in mixed media and resin art, she creates expressive pieces that fuse artistic freedom with technical precision. Her background in woven, printed, and digital textiles continues to shape her practice. Embroidery, fabric, and
decorative motifs find their way into her work, lending it a tactile, layered quality. Each piece begins with experimentation: she builds depth and dimension by pushing materials against one another, letting texture guide the composition as much as colour does.

Jaweria earned her Bachelor of Design (Honours) in Textile Design from the University of Karachi in 2009 and relocated to Canada the same year, where she has since built a thriving creative practice — rooted in craft, sustained by curiosity, and shared generously with her community through teaching and mentorship. At its core, her work is an ongoing conversation between discipline and instinct — between the precision of design and the freedom of paint and mixed media.

This is a home I never lived in. I did not set out to depict a specific address; I set out to build a composition that could hold what was handed to me through the stories of my ancestors — an inherited architecture of belief and belonging, rebuilt here in clay and gold as a way of keeping it close.

I worked on this piece the way memory itself works: imprecise, textured, built up in fragments rather than as a single clear image. The gold leaf marks where devotion enters the ordinary, the way faith enters a household and enlightens its inhabitants. The small potted palms, the lanterns, and the handcrafted patterned tiles are the details that survive when a place becomes a story — the parts that get repeated at family tables long after the walls themselves are gone. The borders around the composition are drawn in the letters of Urdu, taught to me as my first language.