About the Artists
Sheikh Lana
Sheikh Lana is a passionate and intuitive artist whose work seeks to connect deeply with audiences through reflections on emotion, memory, and lived experience.
She has been drawing and painting since childhood and has exhibited her artwork both locally and internationally. Her talent was recognised early through art awards during her school years, and she has continued her artistic journey while studying architecture and up to the present day.
Her paintings have appeared on the covers of well-known books and magazines. Lana works with a range of mediums, including watercolour, oil, pen, and pencil, and her art reflects a strong connection to places she has experienced.
This exhibition presents a body of work inspired by her journey to Everest Base Camp. Each artwork captures the emotions she carried along the trail-shaped by perseverance, vulnerability, and awe, made possible through the support of Sherpas. Through these paintings, Lana invites viewers to experience the beauty, elegance, and profound serenity of the Himalayas-an encounter that gently turns us inward, touching the soul and awakening a deeper connection to our own inner landscapes.
Fahmida Suma
For Fahmida Suma, art is both a voice and a lifelong companion in processing and overcoming life’s struggles. Her work offers a window into her inner world, reflecting experiences, emotions, triumphs, and tribulations.
Her path into art was not traditional. Inspired from a young age by watching her grandmother and uncles paint, create, and perform, she saw how creative expression could hold memories, bring people together, deepen appreciation for nature, and speak to social injustices. Today, her practice is slow, intuitive, and deeply personal, grounded in reflection, healing, and a curiosity about how we carry our inner worlds.
This exhibition is inspired by the mountains and their people. Among the Himalayas, Fahmida felt humility rather than triumph. The vast, fragile, and quietly resilient landscape became a reminder of how small we are, and how much strength lives in gentleness and collective care.
Her artworks respond to that journey, exploring endurance, vulnerability, stillness, and unseen emotional landscapes. Rather than depicting the mountains themselves, she honours what they stirred within her, awe, exhaustion, gratitude, and surrender, inviting viewers to pause and meet their own inner terrain with kindness.
Alongside her art practice, Fahmida works in counselling and yoga, and runs a small social welfare organisation supporting vulnerable children living on the streets of Bangladesh. These roles continue to shape her art, reminding her that creativity can be a quiet form of service and a bridge between people.
