Ava Khera – I wandered alone, but never lonely’

Ava Khera is best known for the transcendent atmosphere and subtle narratives in her figurative and landscape work. Based in Birmingham, United Kingdom, Ava Khera left a successful 8-year career in the design industry to pursue her life-long passion, fine art, full-time. Since then, Ava has earned numerous distinctions, most recently her painting Nature’s Embrace, has won the Birmingham Creates at the The Open Exhibition 2024. As well as winning 2^nd in the 2023 UK Women in Art Award and winning a Flux exhibition award. She has exhibited her work in galleries across the UK including the prestigious Mall Galleries. Ava has also been featured in numerous leading publications such as House & Garden and Flux Magazine.

Ava’s use of tonal values and developed techniques of textured brushwork to depict soft sensorial forms unique to her artistic style. She has always had a keen interest in art history with a love of the storytelling aspects in the works of Herbert Draper and the Pre-Raphelites while gravitating towards the deep, saturated colour pallets of the Rococo painters.

In a recent article in Flux Magazine, Ava Khera says, “Exploring the modern female experience and the natural world through my paintings provides me a well of opportunity to communicate not only my personal experiences and perceptions of my subjects but also provides a window into understanding what moves me as an artist and what I personally connect with most in this world.” She adds, “I choose to paint modern and diverse women in the context of beautiful natural scenes because this is what gets me most excited about painting. Re-framing the narrative of what it means to be a woman in the timelessness of nature. I feel I am contributing to the world of art what should always have been voiced but scarcely was until recently.”

Gaining loyal and enthusiastic clients both in the UK and Internationally collecting both original art and bespoke commissions, Ava Khera is making waves in the art world as a fresh perspective in the representational art market.