
I’m Charmaine Kamal, a Malaysian fiber artist and founder of Nurtureknots Studio. My creative language was shaped quietly at home, between my mother’s hands shaping clay roses late into the night and my father’s endless sketches of lines and forms. One moved through the intimacy of touch, the other through the discipline of structure, and somewhere between them, I learned to see the world as woven.
Their worlds taught me that making is both labor and poetry; that beauty can emerge from repetition, care, and persistence. The memory of my mother’s studio filled with earth and color, and my father’s quiet drawings of buildings and landscapes, still lingers in my work today. It is within this intersection between body and labor, industry and craft, tradition and landscape that my practice continues to grow. Through weaving and knotting, I explore these connections, translating them into sculptural forms that reflect the delicate balance between softness and strength, memory and material.