Tula is an artist and illustrator with a socially engaged practice that explores the way our bodies remember. Drawing is at the heart of her work, which she approaches as an act of listening. Her current work explores memory, the impact of trauma and the possibility of growth and repair, through a series of gently disrupted portrait drawings.

When we look at a drawing, we look at a human connection, an intent to find the form of another. Tula works primarily in pencil, and her drawings embody a relationship between the past and present - in its traces and marks, but also in a present absence. Negative space is integral to Tula’s work as she leaves room for both the drawing and audience to breathe, and challenges ideas of composition.

Her style is distinctive yet versatile and Tula has worked with a broad range of clients to create album, single & book covers, yoga class branding, bespoke portraits and an animated advert. Illustrations are created in pencil, ink, watercolour or drawn digitally depending on the brief. Tula is part of the art direction team at CurtisMarrs, which provides illustration for motion.