Our gardens are like museums. You just need a fresh outlook to spot the city’s natural wonders,” lettering artist and writer Abhishek Khan tells us when we ask him about his new project, a collection of paintings documenting the birds of Mumbai over a call. Hosting botanical tours around the city through his storytelling project, Mumbai Vann, that focuses on stories and informative narratives about botany and putting down his ecological observations on paper through paintings, hand-lettering and observer cards, Khan’s motive to revive our relationship with ecology is rooted in a deep fascination and reverence for the natural world.

A shade card depicting the colour palette of a Poison Dart Frog