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As a girl, Laxmi Hussain loved spending afternoons drawing in her father\u2019s corner store in St. John\u2019s Wood, London: \u201cI used to spread my paper and pens on top of the ice cream fridges looking out the window.\u201d She went on to earn a degree in architecture and to work in design. She\u2019s now a mother of three, and when her oldest was in pre-school, she rediscovered making art through him: \u201cthe more he drew, the more I did; we\u2019d do it together.\u201d<\/p>\n

Laxmi has since focused on being an artist and during her recent pregnancy\u2014her youngest is 10 months old\u2014she began painting the female form. Her latest series, newly available from Partnership Editions, is dedicated to her mother, who she lost to cancer in 2018 at age 64. The collection is in shades of blue, a color Laxmi associates with her mother: \u201cshe\u2019s all around me and in everything I do.\u201d<\/p>\n

Photography by Laxmi Hussain, unless noted.<\/p>\n


Above: Laxmi\u2019s work is often composed of a single continuous line or two. She works in Wembley Park, near Wembley Stadium in a new housing complex with artist spaces created by Second Floor Studios. The group is dedicated to establishing affordable studios for artists and \u201cpromoting the role that art, craft, and design can play in the regeneration of towns and cities.\u201d Photograph by Maria Bell. <\/p>\n

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Above: Laxmi, her husband, and their three kids\u2014ages 10, 7, and 10 months\u2014live in a 1940s house also in Wembley, in northwest London. A group of her small paintings are shown here. Her husband works in systems for the Marks & Spencer food department.,

Above: The all-white kitchen is Laxmi\u2019s favorite room. Its oak table and bench came from John Lewis and were a gift from her mom. The Karlsson Flip Wall Clock is available from Royal Design.
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Above: The industrial-style cage lights are from Made.
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Above: Between Mothers, part of Laxmi\u2019s series available from Partnership Editions, hangs on her bedroom wall. They\u2019re acrylic on handmade Bhutanese paper\u201416-by-28 centimeters, \u00a3360 each\u2014and feature her mother\u2019s favorite flower, the daisy. The rattan Marte Platform Bed is from Urban Outfitters, and the lamp is from H&M Home.
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Above: Laxmi\u2019s son\u2019s footprint and a Twist Candle by Dutch designer Lex Pott on a shelf in the bedroom.,<\/p>\n

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Above: \u201cI went through a whole journey of exploring what it was I wanted to express in my art until I arrived at the body,\u201d says Laxmi. The wall of pastels on heavy, textured paper are her Lines of Transition series. The blue lockers, for supplies and smaller works, are from Ikea\u2019s PS Collection. The Breuer Cesca (or Cesca-style) chair was a street find. 
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Above: Laxmi\u2019s works are all one-of-a-kind drawings and paintings: \u201cI use my art to represent the variety of different bodies I wish to see myself in. I was fed up with one body being the norm.\u201d Her studio table is her sister\u2019s old sewing table.<\/span>
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Above: An old Ikea Industriell chair in the studio with Lines of Transition pastels and Between Mothers paintings.
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Above: \u201cThe papers I use become part of my palette,\u201d says Laxmi. Shown here, her Vessel series of acrylic paintings on handmade cotton paper. The recyclable Kraft Paper Parcel Tape she uses is from Eco-Craft
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Above: See more at Laxmi Hussain (@thislaxmi). <\/p>\n

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