A hand-drawn shelf of things: a striped bottle, a blue glass, a plate and a cup, a clay vase, a trailing money plant, a glass cloche over a coral shape.

Yashica Bhardwaj

I make and bake things for home in textiles, clay, glass, metal, wood, paper and thread.

Home Decor, Sculptural & functional art

Vahe Ensemble, New Delhi, 2025 to now

Leading five artisans from first sketch to finished piece: sculptural and functional art for homes and interiors, in papier-mâché, textile, metal and wood. Shown at India Design 2026 and at Bougainvillea Art Gallery, Ahmedabad.

Yashica standing in a white exhibition booth beside a wall of looped, organic sculptural forms
Exhibit booth: collectibles at India Design 2026, New Delhi.
Looped sculptural forms mounted on a white wall and on plinths
The same stand, closer.Papier-mâché, Manzarpat fabric, natural binders
The exhibition stand seen from the aisle
February 2026, the first show of this body of work.
The loops on the wall, one by one.India Design 2026

Ceramic and glass

NID Ahmedabad and Hochschule Hannover, Germany, 2021 to 2023

Where the material thinking started. Where an acquaintance was made with material, methods, making and forms. Simple product design for sustainable, cost-efficient innovation through user study and materiality.

Nature and Form, plate 1 of 19
Nature and Form: flameworked glass.Borosilicate glass, NID, 2023 · 19 plates, scroll sideways
Nature and Form, plate 2 of 19
Nature and Form, plate 3 of 19
Nature and Form, plate 4 of 19
Nature and Form, plate 5 of 19
Nature and Form, plate 6 of 19
Nature and Form, plate 7 of 19
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Nature and Form, plate 10 of 19
Nature and Form, plate 11 of 19
Nature and Form, plate 12 of 19
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Nature and Form, plate 19 of 19
A tall vessel built from loose terracotta coils
Coiled vessel.Terracotta, 2022
A round plate made of interlocking terracotta rings, on grass
Lattice plate.Terracotta, 2022
Two hands holding a round pane of clear glass with green seaweed forms fused into it
Fused glass.Material exploration, NID, 2022
A small vessel in blue and green glass with petal-like rim
Slumping.Material exploration, NID, 2022
A terracotta cone with a wooden stopper set into the soil of a planter beside a bamboo stem
Plant It: a self-watering device for planters. Terracotta cone and a wooden stopper, pushed into the soil.Simple product design for cost, NID
A hand holding a terracotta cone with its wooden stopper
Plant It, in the hand.Terracotta and wood
Three terracotta cones of different sizes standing on a ledge in sunlight
The family of cones.Surface and form variation
A wall of research sheets, sketches and sticky notes for the Plant It project
Design process, user study and conceptualisation board.NID
Illustrated elements: a bicycle with flowers, a parasol, a deck chair, a cafe table, glasses, vases and a bougainvillea bouquet
Illustrated elements for the decal.Decal design
The decal plate on a floral placemat with cutlery
Bougainvillea vase and amphora icons: a decal for tableware, on a place setting.Mockup render

Beads

Rata Studio, Gurugram, 2023 to 2024

Wearable accessories, collectibles and lamps, designed and developed with the studio's artisans: sourcing, training, conceptualizing, cost optimisation and innovation.

Yashica adjusting a tall, densely beaded coral-coloured sculpture standing on a wooden base beside a red sofa
Coral Shrooms Lamp, collectible.Glass beads on wire, 2024
A sphere covered in beaded zoanthid forms in purple and yellow on a wooden base, on a carpet
Zoanthid Lamp.Beaded collectible
A cluster of beaded coral forms in pink, yellow and blue growing out of a piece of driftwood
Coralscape Lamp, sculptural.Beaded lamp
A pink beaded orchid on a green beaded stem worn at the neck
Iris Necklace.Bead weaving
A small beaded earring shaped like a framed cottage scene, hanging from a wire hanger
MyAbode earrings, Rata Signature Accessories.Beads on wire
Three women beading at a workshop table covered with sketches and colour references
Training and co-creation.Rata Studio workshop

Textiles and print

Jorhat, Jaipur, Gurugram and Péro, 2018 to 2020

Handloom silk and natural dyes in Assam, hand-block printing in Jaipur, a buying house, and a close association with Péro for two consecutive Fashion Weeks. Surface, print, embroidery, table linens and clothes.

Two weavers at a large wooden handloom in a workshop
The loom at Silk Culture, Jorhat.Assam, 2020
A length of undyed handloom silk with a woven border, folded
Silk off the loom: a scarf.Handloom, Jorhat · muga and tussar
Small cloth swatches and dried plant samples laid out on a red cloth
Documentation, archives and tea illustrations.Jorhat, 2020
A grid of small textile and paper samples in browns, ochres and off-whites
Natural dye archives.Personal project, 2021
An open sketchbook with rows of small watercolour figures of studio staff
People of Péro: a social media campaign.Documented in a journal, 2018
An open journal on grass, its cover collaged with fabric, a dried leaf and the words 30 days at Péro
The journal itself.Péro, 2018 to 2019
A line-up of seventeen illustrated figures in floral, striped and checked clothes, each carrying a woven basket bag, against blue and yellow paint drips
Collection illustrations for Péro.Fashion Week
Sketchbook pages and final spreads spread out together: watercolour sheep, a loom, a jeep, balls of wool and a page titled The Magic Ball of Love
The Magic Ball of Love: press kit illustrations for Péro.Fashion Week · sketches and final spreads

Craft research and documentation

Odisha, Firozabad, Sarkhej, Bhadrawati

Documenting Jau Kandhei craft in Odisha, walking the glass cluster at Firozabad and Purdilnagar, the potters at Sarkhej, and a systems-design project with Gramodaya Sangh. This is where a bird's-eye view and deep empathy for the indigenous craft communities developed.

Three small painted lac dolls in orange, green and yellow
Jau Kandhei: lac-turned dolls of Odisha.Craft documentation, 2022
A cover page in warm brown with an illustrated village and the title Gramodaya Sangh
Gramodaya Sangh, Bhadrawati: a systems design project.NID, 2023
The Mann-Maati-Maanush programme: three circles for mind, soil and people, linked by daily rituals and community activities
Mann-Maati-Maanush: Gramodaya reimagined.Systems design, NID

Drawn and moving

Illustration and animation, 2019 to 2025

The drawing hand that runs under everything else: a lyric video illustrated frame by frame, a custom wedding invite, and leaves that carry the flow of an artist's soul.

A painted frame of a girl in a pink dress standing barefoot in a meadow
Keh Do Na: a lyric video, illustrated in Procreate and animated in After Effects. Watch it on YouTube2025
Saagar ki poori hui pratiksha: a custom wedding invite, animated.After Effects
A painted frame of a hand on an acoustic guitar against pine trees and a night sky
The guitar frame from Keh Do Na.Procreate
Seven dried leaves painted with folk-art patterns, on black
Leaves painted on leaves.For the Hannover exchange portfolio, 2022
Yashica's own illustrated CV: a wall of shelves holding a blue morphing robe, painted shoes, books, a wrench, pots and plants, with the words I'm an empath, mostly stepping into different shoes.
“I’m an empath. Mostly stepping into different shoes.”
From the CV I drew for myself, 2025.

This is the page I made before there was a portfolio: everything I do, drawn on shelves.

Write to me

Yashica, smiling, in black and white

New Delhi. Open to product-design roles in home décor, functional art and accessories, and to studios that make things by hand. Interested in exploring roles in sourcing and liaison.

ybyashikabhardwaj@gmail.com · LinkedIn · Resume (PDF)

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Yashica Bhardwaj, New Delhi. The drawings and photographs are my own.