There’s a quiet strength in people who live life like a poem—where every moment is soaked in color, where beauty is not a luxury but a language. Chitakshi, founder of Tela Art Company, is one such person. Her art isn’t just framed on walls—it lingers in the air, like the memory of a fragrance that reminds you of home.
Growing up in the leafy, serene corridors of Chandigarh, India’s modernist marvel of a city, Chitakshi was a child who found wonder in everything—the way rain fell on flowers, the echo of a ghazal playing in the next room, the brushstrokes of light through bougainvillaea. She was drawn to music, dance, poetry, nature, and stories, long before she ever picked up a paintbrush or blueprint.
“I didn’t really choose art,” she smiles. “It was just always there—around me, within me.”
Chitakshi’s world was a canvas of contrasts: the order of Le Corbusier’s geometry outside, and the riot of textures, sounds, and feelings within her. Gardens, old trees, musical afternoons with family and friends, travel tales, and books filled her world. And while many raced ahead chasing definitions of success, she found herself pulled toward meaning. What is a space without a soul? What is life without beauty?
“I was raised in a home where beauty was revered—where my parents nurtured not just talent, but a way of seeing the world through art, music, books, and quiet elegance. That artistic environment became the soil in which my creativity took root.”
It was this philosophy that carried her through architecture school, where she honed her eye for structure, proportion, and materiality. But even then, her sketchbooks were peppered not just with elevations and facades, but with thoughts, portraits, silhouettes of dancers, and blooming wildflowers. She wasn’t building buildings. She was building feelings.
Tela Art Company: Where Stories Find Form
Founded as a passion project, Tela Art Company began with Chitakshi painting in the golden hours of the day, just after tending to her garden and before tucking her little one into bed. Friends became collectors. Collectors became loyal clients. And soon, what was once a one-woman dream became a studio known for creating art that was custom, curated, and emotionally alive.
From wild jungles and colonial bungalows to minimalist lounges and poetic children’s spaces, Chitakshi’s art touches every genre but carries one common thread: it makes people feel seen.
“My work reflects people’s stories—their travels, their cities, their memories,” she says. “I love when someone looks at a painting and says, ‘That’s exactly how I feel, but I never had the words for it.’”
Whether it's contemporary, modern, abstract or realism. Chitakshi brings deep thought to every composition. There’s a softness in her work, an elegance that feels both timeless and personal. And her medium? Everything from acrylics,oil, pigments and inks to textures inspired by fabric, clay, metal, dried leaves, twigs, flowers and earth.
The Artist as a Person
Outside the studio, Chitakshi is as artistic in spirit as she is on canvas. A lover of gardening, she can often be found with her hands in soil and her heart in bloom. She finds joy in golf with friends,cooking, dancing, evening music under starlit skies, and solitude with books.
Her travels across Africa, Europe, Australia, Bali, South Asia, India, Japan and Morocco have left an indelible mark on her artistic sensibility—each landscape, flavor, face, and cultural rhythm weaving itself into her work, creating a rich tapestry of textures, moods, and memories that transcend borders.
Her art is deeply intuitive, often balancing contrasting emotions—chaos and calm, solitude and belonging, nostalgia and hope. As an entrepreneur, she’s hands-on with everything: client consultations, design planning, material sourcing, and shipping logistics. Yet, she still finds time to get her hands messy with paint, every single day.
She surrounds herself with beauty—not in the material sense, but in the poetic one. Flowers, architecture, art museums, slow travel, and conversations with kindred spirits nourish her.
Art That’s More Than Decor
With Tela Art Company, she has built more than a business. She has built a movement—a return to art that has meaning. Her works now hang in hotels, homes, and heartful spaces across the country, each one infused with her signature blend of emotional honesty and visual richness.
“I’m always inspired,” she says. “By nature, by people, by textures, by light. But most of all, I’m inspired by the idea that beauty can heal. It can anchor you. It can bring you home.”
To explore her work or commission a piece that speaks your story, visit Tela Art Company’s online portal. Art, after all, is not just something you look at—it’s something you live with.
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