Aldona, Goa, India
Pakhi Sen is a visual artist, illustrator, and educator based in Goa. Her practice is rooted in storytelling, using drawing as a way to observe, record, and make sense of the worlds she moves through. Working across oil painting, oil pastel, and pencil, she creates meditative works shaped by close attention to landscape, memory, and everyday encounters.
Journaling is central to her process. Through walking, collecting, and observational drawing, she develops a body of visual research that informs her larger works and ongoing enquiries into the stories of ecology, place, and community and their in-betweens.
Alongside her studio practice, Pakhi works as an illustrator, using digital and interactive interfaces to engage with archives and community-oriented storytelling. She collaborates with organizations and publications working in socio-political and cultural spaces, using art as a way to visualize stories and make layered ideas differently accessible.
As an educator, she develops arts pedagogy and learning modules at The Owl House, a learning centre for neurodivergent individuals, building frameworks for creative learning that centre experimentation, sensitivity, and self-expression.
Pakhi has exhibited at Serendipity Arts Festival and India Art Fair with GallerySKE, and regularly with Goa Open Arts. She sees her practice as an ongoing dialogue with place and community, excited by the intimacy of living systems that hold the world together.