Nile Jade was born in India in 1945 and started to paint only when she was 27 years old. Although her main academic discipline was in Fashion Design, her passion and talent lies in painting in which she is very much self-taught.

The technique that Jade employs is very unique and unusual. She paints on wood using brushes and knife which produces a special kind of "copper-tooling" texture effect.

Like a lace-maker, the artist recreates refined yet warm bourgeois interiors. Her feminine figures, always solitary, occupy their leisure in an atmosphere of serenity.