Jaweria Imran | Gulzar

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.

Gulzar means a garden in bloom. In the homes I grew up in, that garden was never a piece of land. It was a vase on the table, a plant by the window, a cutting someone carried from one house to the next and kept alive. This painting is that vase. Everything growing out of it is what a home gives back when someone looks after it. I built the whole surface in raised relief, drawing every leaf and petal by hand before adding any colour. That comes from my textile training, where the line has to be right before anything else can happen. I kept the composition symmetrical, the way the floral patterns I grew up seeing on tiles, fabric, and prayer mats are arranged. The colour moves from gold at the bottom to blue at the top, so the flowers look like they are still rising.

For me, faith at home was never separate from these small acts of care. It looked like tending something and trusting that it would grow. That is what I wanted this painting to hold.