Painting is key to relax, recharge, revive.

Menaka was given an Introduction-to-Origami kit when she was a child. She copied each fold, bending and creasing each piece of paper, astonished that she was building something from a blank piece of paper. While her origami career never took off, it was an introduction to art that has stuck with her for the duration of her adulthood.

Still what she calls a “learning artist”, Menaka is a painter who says painting helps her to relax, re-center, and get her creative gears moving.