Coming from a poor and uneducated background, Sahaja sought to break free from his conditioning and to reinvent himself. In his teens he found both art and Buddhism and later achieved a Fine Art Degree and Buddhist ordination. Sahaja discovered his natural medium in metal sculpture.

After college he found himself a studio at Dean Clough in Yorkshire and had a prolific 9 year period of working in metal. But the life of the artist is a precarious one. Eventually Sahaja lost his studio and with it his stable working conditions. This led to a long period of struggle and re-evaluation culminating in Sahaja yet again reinventing himself, this time as a painter using a mix of paint and collage.

Sahaja’s name means, “natural, innate, spontaneous, born with…” His art is his practice; exploring and transforming himself. He lives and breathes his art as though his life depended on it. It does.

You can see more of his work, including his recent paintings of The 16 Vajrasattvas, on his own website.