Thirteen years ago, Mumbai-based Bhavna Jasra started ‘First Impressions’, an art shop, in which she hopes to make every memory of her clients count by creating something that they, whether a couple or young parents, can cherish forever. Because even as Bhavna puts it — there’s so much going on in life, time can pass by in a jiffy.
Right at the start of our interaction, Bhavna gives us a peek into her art. “My art involves casting of expressions of hands and feet in metal finishes like gold, silver and bronze. I then frame them to make memorable keepsakes for life,” she explains, adding that she’d chanced upon this concept in the UK, and was drawn to it when she was a mother-to-be.
Even then to her it had seemed a very beautiful way of preserving the lovely memories of a baby’s tiny hands and feet in the form of a keepsake to be cherished for a lifetime. “Being a mother-to-be myself, I could relate to the emotion and was sure there’d be many in India…
Capturing love in golden moulds
