Meet Our Contributors
Seema Vashishth,
Creative Advisor
Seema is the CEO and Founder of Sweta Sttory, a company driven by the vision of bridging gaps and forging futures. With over 20 years of experience in education, she has made a lasting impact as an educationist and soft skills trainer, helping individuals and corporate employees navigate challenges and unlock their potential.
Her achievements include being recognized among the 50 Most Influential Women Worldwide by the Alpine Group in 2018, along with prestigious honors such as the Elite Face of India 2018 and the Pride of India Award from the India-Ukraine Club.
As the founder of The Seeya Sttory, Seema provides a platform for emerging designers, models, and authors, helping them gain visibility and recognition. Looking ahead, she is committed to expanding The Seeya Sttory to support even more creatives and professionals, empowering them to overcome obstacles and achieve success.
Priya Singh Chauhan,
Intern
Priya is a passionate self-taught artist basically from Patna, Bihar. A Delhi University graduate in Political Science, though academics never truly resonated with her. Throughout her life, she has been deeply connected to various art forms—dance, music, theatre, fine arts, craft, and even writing poetry and stories as a means of self-expression.
Currently, she is doing an internship at Calhi Studios, Faridabad, under two accomplished artists, exploring a practice beyond traditional gallery constraints. Priya’s goal is to dive deep into the endless ocean of life, experiencing and expressing through art in all its forms—because for her, art is movement, emotion, and the essence of existence.
Clay
Clay Howard (Royal College of Art, UK / Art Students League, NY / Lewis and Clark College OR) is a San Francisco Bay Area born painter currently living in London. His satirical paintings reflect contemporary culture, as they expose the absurdity of human behaviour. His display of reptilian cartoon characters, scaly and green, embodies the outer skin humans use to present themselves to society. His previous experiences include interning at The Aperture Foundation for The Steven A. Baron Work Scholar program in New York and as the lead Graphic Designer for the 10th issue of Beacon Quarterly Magazine in Portland, Oregon.
This knowledge has brought an aspect of photographic composition, magazine culture, and storytelling into his visual language. While traveling in India, he was told by his friends that “Clay’ in Hindi translated to “Slippery Dirt”. Ever since, he has used the pseudonym Slippery Dirt satirically, as a play on his name and as a brand.
Saruha
Saruha Kilaru, 26, is a recent graduate from MA Print at Royal College of Art. Her practice is driven by a high sensitivity to colour and its ever-influencing presence in our environment. She explores this through the meditative processes of repetition and print as a broad sense of not just image multiplication but its deeper meanings of pressure, perception and psychology.
Saruha has worked previously with the EFA Blackburn print studio in New York, and also exhibited multiple works at the Artbuzz studios in Delhi. Her works were also exhibited at the Woolwich Contemporary Print Fair 2021 and Southwark Park Galleries along with Espacio gallery and Fine Liquids Art Gallery in 2022 in London. She has won the High Prize for artistic excellence in 2022 along with being selected to be a part the Travers Smith Art Program 2022 to 2023. In 2023, her work was displayed at Artbuzz Gallery, as a Parallel venue for India Art Fair. She also showed at the MP Birla Millennium Gallery, London at a group show “Rush to Wilderness” with Gallery Nat. Apart from the shows, she also conducted a Bookbinding workshop at Bikaner House in collaboration IAF’23 and young collectors’ program.