How did you get hooked on to visual storytelling?
My mum, Nilofer Suleman is an artist and mapmaker. When I was 11, I started to watch her at work. I began to get obsessed with some of the fantasy elements and would recreate them. My early paintings were huge, with an intense palette. By the time I was 16, quite by accident, I wrote a book of poetry for kids. Meanwhile, my blog was always my playing field for writing, travel and photography. Soon, I began to doodle, and art took over my mindset. I realised that the most important thing for me was to start telling my own stories through illustrations. At 18, I was working on one of the Karadi Tales series. I was set — art was to be my calling.

The Mandala Map Reader