Raised in Cambridge, Inaya studied ballet for 14 years, where she was taught discipline, grace, and the art that even the smallest movement can tell a story. That sensibility extends to her art, where she records ephemeral moments with the same graceful reserve. After studying law at Downing College in the University of Cambridge, she returned to what had always seemed the most natural: to create. Windsor and Perth-based, she paints in oils and charcoal, and her paintings are in private collections.
Her work is subtle but rich, concerned with fine-feeling emotions tucked away in the quotidian — how light catches on a face, the pause in a hand, the quiet story held in a car or boat. One of her charcoal works, Deixei Ir, meditates on the silent heft of absence — the tracks that people leave behind, the vacuums they engaged, and the way a thing can seem simultaneously there and not.
Inaya’s art isn’t about momentous declarations; it’s about the quotidian details that make life feel genuine. A passing glance, the hush of twilight, the way a plane’s trail fades into the sky — she catches them as if pressed flowers, clinging to what might slip away. Her paintings never call loudly for attention; they draw you in gently, like a secret in waiting.
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(“The Eyes Unveil the Veil”)
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