Geethu Chandramohan

I’m a self-taught artist with a background in aerospace engineering - two worlds that might seem far apart, but for me, they both hold a kind of precision, a kind of wonder. I never went to art school, but I’ve spent years immersed in colour, texture, and emotion, teaching myself through exploration and building a global community of students along the way. Over 35,000 artists around the world have learned from my online classes, and through every painting, I continue to learn too. My training wasn’t formal. It was lived - layered through years of practice, intuition, and a relentless belief that art is something we grow into by doing.

My art explores identity, transformation, and the quiet power of becoming. I’m deeply drawn to the in-between places - the moments when we’re no longer who we were, but not yet who we’re becoming. That’s where my work lives. In the layers. In the unspoken. In the softness we carry alongside our strength.

Through each piece, I reflect on what it means to hold contradictions - to be bold and tender, structured and wild, certain and searching. Many of my portraits are not about physical likeness, but about emotional resonance. They’re stories in skin and texture, in colour and silence. They speak of the parts of ourselves we often keep hidden, and the beauty of bringing them into the light.

I also explore what it means to follow every part of yourself - to be a mother and an artist, a scientist and a dreamer, without having to choose just one. My work invites the viewer to do the same. To soften. To expand. To remember.

At its core, my art is about becoming - again and again, with grace.

Artistic background

I’m a self-taught artist with a background in aerospace engineering - two worlds that might seem opposite at first, but for me, they both speak of precision, imagination, and the courage to build something from nothing. I never trained in a traditional art school. My training came from the quiet hours after work, from weekends filled with paint-stained fingers, from a relentless curiosity to figure things out on my own terms.

I began with watercolours, fell in love with mixed media, and eventually developed my own signature process - one that blends portraiture, abstract textures, and deep emotional storytelling. Over the years, I’ve taught more than 35,000 students around the world through my online classes. Teaching became a way of understanding myself more deeply, and it gave me the honour of helping others believe that they too were allowed to create.

My art is rooted in lived experience, emotional truth, and the quiet power of layering. I learn every time I pick up a brush. My journey wasn’t shaped by institutions - it was shaped by doing, by daring, and by choosing to honour every version of myself. And that, to me, is the most meaningful kind of training there is.

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I create to honour every part of who we are—the bold, the soft, the wild, the wondering - and to remind us all that we were never meant to choose just one version of ourselves.