Hi, my name is Tetsong Jamir and I’m a freelance contemporary artist from Dimapur, Nagaland. I studied and graduated in fashion and graphic design from Accademia Italiana in Bangkok, Thailand. After working there for four years for various magazine and film companies, I moved to Tokyo and studied traditional Japanese water-color painting.

My interest in art started from a very young age and I was self-taught because there weren’t any good art teachers around where I lived. I always took art as a hobby and never really knew that I could make a career out of it. I always wanted to get into a creative field and I knew that’s where I would be happy. My parents were very supportive when I told them that I want to get into art and design after my 12th standard. And that’s how my art journey began.

Art for me has been a therapeutic journey through the ups and downs of my life and has saved me in so many ways. Creating something with your own hands, painting a piece of your imagination on a piece of paper can be quite liberating. Knowing that you and only you could create something which nobody has seen before gives you a sense of gratitude, accomplishment and pride. In the future, I would love to open a design studio in Nagaland where creative minds would join together and work on projects, be it fashion design, graphic design or interior design. There are so many talented Naga artists and I would like to build a platform for every one of us to flourish.