Amber Panezai 

''There breathes a jewel far from reach.
Fountains of lucent petals erupt in countless heaps.
Kissed by mighty gold rays, glows intently.
In endless language it echoes its reach.
Under celestial swirls therein gardens that worship and preach.''

— Amber Panezai

Amber Panezai is an artist working across painting, weaving, silk, ornament and myth. At the heart of her practice is Eden / The Escape—an ongoing world unfolding upon silk, where memory becomes light and the given script dissolves into freedom.

To find the garden of freedom is to find your own universe that lives within each of us. The beginning of our own cosmogony is what each of us is missioned to remember.

The painting parallels her quiet journey of transforming resilience into freedom. During two years spent caring for her father, Baba, as he lives with dementia, Eden became a place of refuge and transformation.

“I become the painting.”

MA Textiles, Royal College of Art, London. BA Textiles, Central Saint Martins.