About
Tina Mohindra
Creativity has been a constant thread throughout my life, nurtured alongside a formal education and career in science. As a scientist, I worked across a range of indications, developing a deep understanding of complexity, systems, and discovery; all of which echo through artistic practice. After my Art A level and science degree’s, I studied at the KLC School of Design in Chelsea. Since my last work on the Covid19 Vaccine project in Oxford, I am now painting full-time.
Holding a Doctorate of Philosophy, I resists boundaries and reject the common separation of art from science, or intellect from intuition. For me, they are interwoven modes of understanding that, when studied and lived together, cultivate a complete and expansive mind. My work is guided by the belief that everything is connected: spirituality, scientific inquiry, artistic expression, and human consciousness form a single, continuous field. I advocate for intellectual freedom and approach both life and artistic practice without fixed borders, embracing curiosity, integration, and the radical openness required for true discovery.
My practice draws inspiration from works of Psychologist Carl Jung, Ancient Vedic Philosophy and Indologist Professor Heinrich Zimmer.
Each of my artworks is an inquiry and a meditation, inviting viewers to experience harmony between the rational and the spiritual.
Tina is a contemporary abstract artist, born in London and now residing in Oxfordshire, whose paintings explore the intersections of science, spirituality, philosophy and nature. She works primarily with oil and acrylic paints, creating layered, dynamic compositions that reflect her fascination with balance, connection, and the unseen structures that shape our world. Tina is particularly intrigued by intrinsic and extrinsic energy fields and their fusion. Opposites that lean toward one another: forceful and the yielding, the luminous and the shadowed…circling, completing, and transforming each other.
Tina works from her studio on the Cotswolds border, an idyllic space nestled within an orchard and fed by a natural spring well. This tranquil setting inspires her practice and infuses her work with a sense of grounding and connection to the natural world.
Mother Earth Series
I started my My Mother Earth Series of paintings in 2025, after reading the book The Forest of Enchantments, which follows the story of the Ramayana from Sita’s eyes.
This book intrigued me on so many different levels. It’s an epic that was written more than 2,500 years ago, yet so much of the philosophy, psychology and lessons are relevant to life today.
What particularly interests me about this book are the references to our fragile Earth and what happens when you disturb the Earth’s balance and ecosystem. I have always been fascinated by the flora, fauna and creatures of this planet, and I am a big David Attenborough fan. So this part of the story really stood out for me.
The first verse of the Ramayana is said to have been written after Valmiki witnessed a hunter shoot a crane that was in the middle of mating and I interpret this a destruction of balance in the ecosystem. In addition, pivotal moments in the story involve flora, fauna, forest animal along with concepts of creation and destruction.
As we are living in very difficult times, with rapid climate change, drawing attention to environmental issues is more important than ever. #
The demon Ravana is within all of us, and he did not care for the planet at all. In fact, he used the disguise of a beautiful deer to get his way. Rama, the epitome of dharma and righteousness, is also within us, and in the story it is Rama’s duty to destroy Ravana.
But the most interesting part of the story for me, as a woman, is Sita. Sita did not have a mortal birth. She was born from the soil and grew up with privilege, yet was one with the flora, fauna and creatures of her kingdom. She is also the epitome of righteousness. However, one small mistake, because she was mesmerised by the beauty of a deer, led to one of the biggest battles in ancient history.
In the end, to avoid surrendering to injustice, she calls upon the Earth to swallow her up again, and she is again, one with her mother.
The story really made me think about how we would behave if we were, in fact, born from the Earth and we saw our planet as our mother figure, nourishing, nurturing, in perfect balance, yet so fragile and vulnerable.
Perhaps we all need to start seeing the planet in this way to ensure we treasure it and look after it to the best of our ability.
I have always been fascinated by Indian art, philosophy and symbolism, studying miniature paintings during my art studies and exhibiting my very first painting at the University of Liverpool in 2003. This painting was a large painting of a lotus and its journey through darkness, with a small, fragile female figure near the roots.
I am now going back to my roots and exploring Earth and life through abstraction and ancient symbolism.
Tina Mohindra
Tina Mohindra
Life of a Lotus, Acrylic on canvas 2003
Inner Outer Portals
My Inner Outer Portal Series is inspired directly by yoga and the stories and philosophy it was born from.
Shiva is the facet of a higher power that represents dissolution and destruction, and he is often depicted artistically as being in deep yogic meditation as the epitome of stillness or doing the dance of destruction that destroys the universe in order to recreate it.
A more abstract depiction is the Shiva Lingam, which is a dark black stone that represents stillness and the void within us, which isn’t something to be afraid of but something to embrace, because each renewal requires this.
Interestingly, to me, this represents very similar ideas to those of a black hole, and I often wonder if, in ancient times, these were artistic depictions to give us an understanding of things they already knew way back then.
Doing more research into this, I came across the works of Heinrich Zimmer, a scholar and Indologist. Interestingly, he drew similar parallels through symbolism.
This made me think about the similarities of outer world structures and inner world forms experienced during deep meditation. I suddenly understood the concept of Shiva very well.
It’s something that resonates with me and probably with anyone who practises yoga today.
Through my artwork, I like exploring the stillness and the darkness in a positive way, through deep meditative forms as well as cosmic celestial structures.
Tina Mohindra
To me dreams are part of nature, which harbors no intention to deceive but expresses something as best it can.
Carl Jung
Tina Mohindra
Portal I, Acrylic on canvas 2025