Pooja is a full-time artist currently based in Sydney, Australia. Born in the beautiful valley of Kashmir, India, she belongs to the aboriginal Hindu Pandit community. During her years of chidhood in Kashmir, she was always surrounded by unlimited palette of nature's beauty which inspired her to pick up colors. As a young mind, art helped her heal from the horror of terrorism and the mass exodus and genocide of 1990, that was suffered by her entire community of half a million people. The sense of loss, grief and longing to return to her birth place still remains today. Yet in all the difficult and challenging times of her growing years, she continued to dedicate sometime of the day to play around with colours. Being deeply passionate about art since her childhood, going to her art materials to create something has always been her escape from daily routines of life. Deeply intrigued by anything that involves creativity, she has been working on her skills ever since she called art as her most favorite hobby. Art has now become her way of life. Married to a loving and caring man, she calls him her backbone and strength. The two are blessed with a son, who always shares his valuable feedback and inputs for her work. After moving to Australia in 2015, she found more time to dedicate to her art and soon decided to take art as her full time profession.

Pooja works from her home studio in North Kellyville, Sydney and does not have any formal education in arts . She predominantly works in oil colors but enjoys working in other mediums such as acrylics, polychromos pencil colors, permanent markers and paper quills. Being in Australia reminds her of her native place where the natures beauty is in abundance and the inspiration for artists is unbounded and inexhaustible. She draws her inspiration from the nature and everything that comes from and goes to the Soil- colours, food, flora, fauna and above all the diversity of life. She loves to soak up and immerse herself in the untouched wilderness of vast bushes and forests, abundance of rustic landscapes that have been left to its own devices. Or, walk the forgotten, unkempt, unnoticed patches of trees, bushes and seasonal flora and fauna along the paths, or simply in her backyard. Her work reflects her love for nature, wildlife and mundane things she knocks into on daily basis, that reminds the viewer of a comforting and familiar scenes. Her emerging creative practice encompasses recreating wildlife portraits, landscapes and still life rendered compositions in a close to realistic form. Her abstract work adds playfulness and life to the canvas. Her love for bold, bright and strong color palette is very evident in her artworks. She uses multiple layering method to create depth and give some textural visual effect to her work. Her paintings can add a lot of drama, color and elegance to the undertone and cool pastel shades and light up any corner, table or walls of the room.

Pooja enjoys to zen-doodle everyday, as a part of her daily meditation routine. She is also a volunteer illustrator with Isha Vidya School of Isha Foundation. She loves photography and had been a member of National Geographic Your Shot community and many of her photographic works have been published in VOGUE Italia. She never leaves her home without a camera. Her photos are the reference for most of her artworks.