About Me
Aanya Mukhtyar (b.2003) is a British Indian London based artist working largely as a painter. Aanya is interested in the relationship between light and colour, drawing inspiration from the natural world; light filtering through the leaves of trees and shining on the tips of waves. She draws cross cultural experience to create dreamlike blends of both her Indian heritage and British upbringing, emulating a fusion synonymous with her identity.
Bye pandemonium
179cm x 294cm | Oil & acrylic on canvas, aluminium tube, steel cable, binoculars | 2026
Jaan var
113cm x 163cm | Oil & acrylic on canvas | 2026
Stairway to...
18cm x 20cm | Oil on canvas | 2025
Light & color study 2
7cm x 7cm | Oil on canvas | 2025
Sun setting on the sea
35cm x 45cm | Oil on canvas | 2025
Hills & Valleys
90cm x 90cm | Oil on canvas | 2025
2 Aanyas
80cm x 94cm | Oil & acrylic on canvas | 2025
Lightness of...
5ft x 5ft | Oil & acrylic on canvas | 2025
Sun & Moon converge
64cm x 48cm | Oil on canvas | 2025
Flower bouquet
32cm x 18cm | Oil & acrylic on canvas | 2025
Kohinoor 2
90cm x 165cm | Oil & acrylic on canvas | 2025
A Girl Can Dream 2
A3 | Watercolour on paper | 2025
A Girl Can Dream 1
A3 | Watercolour on paper | 2025
Tipu's Tiger
33cm x 22cm | Oil & acrylic on canvas | 2025
Kohinoor
74cm x 50cm | Oil & acrylic on canvas | 2025
Mothers Land
83cm x 92cm | Oil & acrylic on canvas | 2024
Self Portrait
60cm x 43cm | Oil & acrylic on canvas | 2024
Study of Rajasthani miniature
27cm x 28cm | Watercolour on paper, thread | 2024
Longing for Metamorphosis
91cm x 87cm | Oil & acrylic on canvas, heavy carvable modelling paste, mdf | 2024
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Carpe Diem, Safehouse | 13th November - 17th November 2025 Group show
Turps Banana Summer School Leavers, Turps Banana Gallery | 3rd September - 6th September 2025 Group show
Wake, Fitzrovia Gallery | 28th August - 31st August 2025 Group show
Zine Mela, WIP Space | 26th July - 14th August 2025 Group show
Writings
- "Longing for my Metamorphosis by Aanya Mukhtyar is a textural feast that balances the boisterous and dainty. Transfixed, I imagined all the times I'd seen that little girl's wistful look on my sister and female cousins while they were growing up." - Asimov Baker Read more
- Mukhtyar’s investigation arrives at a felicitous moment. There is a palpable return to the spiritual in times of crisis — and we find ourselves in multiple, overlapping ones. What gives us hope? What sustains our will to fight? Though Mukhtyar may frame her practice largely in aesthetic terms, I would argue that (1) she approaches aesthetics through a spiritual lens, and (2) in investigating spirituality, she is excavating what it means to feel, to inhabit a body, to be human. She does so distinctly, through an ambitious weaving of references: mathematical patterns in Islamic art, the colour theories of Sonia Delaunay, narratives from Indian epics. Her British South Asian identity informs this referencing deeply, though it functions less as subject matter and more as the lens through which she sees. - Tobi Ibiye Makinde “The Quiet Reach of the Spiritual in Aanya Mukhtyar’s Practise” (Penlicenced issue 1)