Aparna Jain is not only the wife of one of my colleagues, she is also a local Toronto artist. She generally works in pencil, both graphite and colour, but here’s the media that interests me most: Pyrography. To me that sounds like creating art by obessively setting fire to things, but (and you may be surprised to hear this) it turns out that’s not quite right. It is, in fact, the art of etching a drawing into wood using a hot tool.

Check out her work on the Art Work by Aparna site. She is also a featured artist at Curry’s.