Twin sisters were born in London, in 1966. They moved with their family to Wirral, Merseyside in 1974 and received a Roman Catholic education at a local Convent school with the initial intention of following a vocation in Medicine. Their career in art developed quite by chance when unforeseen circumstances pushed them instead to both read for a BA Hons. in Ecclesiastical History, Comparative Religion and Contemporary Western Art History in 1985-87.

It was during this period that the Twins began to develop their unique style of painting largely in rebellion against the intense pressure they experienced to conform to Western models of contemporary art. Ever since visiting India for the first time in 1980, they have been fascinated by the miniature – with its exquisite detail, technical skill and breathtaking level of perfection. They drew inspiration from the Indian Miniature tradition. It was just a highly appealing style whose rich narrative and symbolic character made it a superb medium of communication that they felt transcended cultural and historical barriers. But they had been disappointed to find that within Contemporary art the miniature seemed to have been largely neglected by Indian artists and Institutions in favour of Western role models.

It was seen either as an outdated, historic art form or reduced to a commodity to be mass produced for tourist consumption with little care taken to maintain the technical quality of the originals they copied. Initially, Twin sisters wanted to revive an interest in what they saw as the lost heritage of an undervalued tradition and bring it to the attention of a wider global audience as a way of challenging what the sisters regarded as the blind copying of Western trends in Contemporary art.

Whilst continuing to develop their chosen art form they went on to do postgraduate studies into popular and traditional Sikh art at Manchester University. Their won a highly competitive INTACH(Indian National Trust for art & Cultural Heritage)scholarship in 1990 to carry out a year’s field research in India. Their research work (for the Ph.D on Sikh Religious Art) took them to the Indian cities of Delhi , Calcutta, Meerut & Amritsar.