Mohini Bariya

Mohini Bariya

Art

Scientific illustration

I feel engineering and the sciences could do with more beautiful visualizations. I have worked as a science illustrator for the Berkeley Science Review, and I continue to develop technical visualizations for my own work. If you have an illustration project you might be interested in collaborating on, please write to me.

Illustration for the paper Wearable Biosensors for Body Computing
Bat illustration, Berkeley Science Review
Illustration from an nLine blog post on grid outage detection

From left to right: illustration for the paper “Wearable Biosensors for Body Computing”, illustration detail from the Berkeley Science Review, and illustration detail from a blog post presenting an approach to grid outage detection from end-point measurements.

Here are a few full-spreads showing my illustration and design work from the Berkeley Science Review.

From the Field, Berkeley Science Review, May 2020
From the Field, Berkeley Science Review. May 2020.
Labscopes, Berkeley Science Review, December 2019
Labscopes, Berkeley Science Review. December 2019.

Sketching

Thanks to my aunt, I have been drawing and painting from when I was very young, although I continually wish to spend more time on it. Today, I enjoy working in many media, particularly pastel, linoprinting, and oil.

Pastel egg
Oil painting of a woman with pomegranates
Linocut of two views of a tidepool

Cracking an egg in oil pastel, a woman with pomegranates in oil, and a linocut of two views of a tidepool.

My aunt also introduced me to watercolor painting on location.

Watercolor of an Ottoman sabil in Istanbul
An Ottoman sabil – a public water fountain – in Istanbul.