Himani Agarwal is originally from the city of Lucknow and currently based in New Delhi. Trained in jewellery design, she spent over 15 years exploring materials, form, and the language of adornment before being drawn toward something slower, more intimate, and deeply expressive—fire enamelling.

What began as curiosity gradually became transformation. Enamel shaped not only her artistic practice but also her understanding of life itself: layered, unpredictable, fragile, and beautiful all at once. Through The Joyful Enamelist, she creates contemporary wearable art and objects that hold emotion, memory, and quiet reflection.

Her work has been showcased internationally at Milan Jewelry Week, Paris Fashion Week, Curate Paris, NYC Jewelry Week, and Munich Jewelry Week. Alongside her studio practice, she passionately teaches enamelling, working toward a more open, contemporary, and accessible future for the craft.

For Himani, enamel has become far more than a medium—it has offered community, healing, and a profound way to connect with people through beauty, emotion, and shared human experience.

"The Joyful Enamelist is a cozy atelier tucked in green corner of New Delhi, India. As The Joyful Enamelist I am drawn to the raw beauty of the woman—not the idealised woman, but the real one. The woman who stretches, carries, nurtures, suppresses, bleeds, desires, survives. I am deeply moved by the fragility of women and the quiet violence of the many roles they are expected to embody across different stages of life. Much of my work draws from my own lived experiences and from the women around me—whether it is a powerful figure like Begum Hazrat Mahal or the woman next door carrying invisible histories within her body.

I find echoes of womanhood everywhere in nature—in seeds waiting to rupture, in insects shedding skin, in roots that survive beneath broken ground. My creative process always begins with form generation. I search for a shape that can hold an emotion before I attempt to make it tangible. I am fascinated by the transformation of a flat metal sheet into sculptural, breathing forms—the tenderness and strength of malleable copper feels deeply human to me.

Enamel entered my life as a material but stayed as a philosophy. Its unpredictability seduced me. I do not seek perfection in it; I seek honesty. Over time, enamel became my way of healing, remembering, and expressing what words often fail to hold.

Metal remembers.
Enamel forgives.

And somewhere between the two, I find myself."