An inspirational woman, Arwa Turra lives her fashion designer dream by hand painting her designs on fabrics and canvas. Her work conveys strong messages, which she pens down in the form of poetry.

Arwa Turra is a self-taught Artist, an Interior Designer and a Poet. Besides, she is a fashionista, who handprints fabric and makes wearable art. She specializes in telling stories of contented women on canvas by dressing them in bright and colorful flowers.

Arwa hails from Udaipur, but is currently living in Sri Lanka for a few years. After completing her schooling from St. Mary’s, she did her B.Sc alongside a Graphic Designing course from Arena Animation, Udaipur. After working as a Graphic Designer for a few months, she realized that her interest lies in the field of Interior Designing. Hence, she pursued interior designing from SNDT Women’s University, Mumbai. Then she worked as an Interior Designer for a few years in Dubai. Later, due to some family obligations, she had to give her career a break and soon made a move into the creative field of Art. In order to develop and enhance her artistic skills, she went to Spain and Egypt to study Art. Currently, she is pursuing a Diploma in Art Therapy from Barcelona University, Spain.

Reminiscing about her childhood memories, Arwa says that she had an artistic and creative instinct since childhood. So, just at the age of ten, she participated in a wall painting competition in the town. Although she was not eligible to contest but was honored by a Certificate of Appreciation for her fervor.

About her Artistic journey, Arwa says that every three-four years they move to different countries due to her husband’s transferable job. In order to sell her Art pieces, she organizes exhibitions at art galleries of every country and of course through online platforms as well. Besides, she has collaborations with a couple of US based lifestyle companies, for whom she works on commission basis. Throwing light on her poetic aspects, she says that recently, one of her books has also been published in the name ‘Heartstrings by Arwa Turra’. It comprises her poetry and art on women and love.

Talking about Role Models, Arwa says that instead of any person, she considers her attitude towards life as her biggest inspiration. She learns some or the other thing from every artist and so she takes inspiration from many of them.

Describing her struggles, Arwa says that she feels blessed for being a part of a well-to-do family, where she never had to see bad days. But there was a time after her second child when she became a victim of postpartum depression. She overcame it brilliantly by using her artistic traits. Besides, she faces this challenge of making new relations in every country she moves to, be it personally or professionally.

Arwa says that due to the closure of schools during the Covid pandemic, her children used to stay at home. As a result, she used to get a limited time to spend on making her art pieces. This was the biggest challenge she faced during that time as she could not even spare some time for herself.

According to Arwa, Success is to work for yourself and be patient as there is no shortcut to it.

In Arwa’s opinion, both Education and Experience are necessary in life because experience needs the support of education to live in the right way.

Apart from painting, Arwa loves traveling, doing adventurous sports and spending time with herself in her spare time. Also, being a nature lover, she enjoys trekking and hiking. Besides, she is an avid reader.

If Arwa had a Time Machine, she would go back to her 11th grade and choose her subject as Arts instead of Science.

Advising the young artists, Arwa tells them that only if you are good at Art, choose it as your career path. She tells them to keep your work original in order to make your own identity as a fine artist.