Jaya Kalra is not a new artist. Despite the fact that she has had no formal schooling in the art of painting yet her brush speaks volumes about her special gift and expertise in voicing the north east region to the rest of the world. Jaya also goes beyond nature through her symbolic paintings.

In other word she is not so carried away by the Mysticism of nature as to forget the rough and tumble of social life. Hers is an art that communicates that informs, that challenges and even provokes one and all from every community and walk of life. 

Jaya Kalra is not a new age artist. Her works of art have also been displayed at the Galerie des Arches, 22 rue des Quatre fils, Paris. She also had been General Council member of the Lalit Kala Akademi. Jaya Kalra is the third amongst four siblings of Mrs. Sushma and (Late) Sukhdev Raj Ghai, her father and closest confidante. Jaya’s father left an airforce job and joined the Insurance sector where he retired as Deputy Zonal Manager. 

She is married to Rajiv Kalra, an Electrical engineer and businessman by profession, who has been her pillar of strength and inspiration in her endeavour to make her art and healing reach out to the masses. She is a dedicated mother to her children and enjoys balancing her domestic duties with her career. She loves her family a lot and loves to spend time with family. 

 Her son Aneesh also an engineer in Electronic and Communication. After working in TCS for three years joined family business. An inspiring and dedicated towards his profession, duties and with full of love for his family.

 Her Daughter Rachita full of life, energetic and enthusiast was a Psychiatrist and a noble sole always extended her hands to people in need of Mental and Physical help. She passed her MD from MGM hospital, Mumbai. She was married to Dr.Nitish Arora an Oculoplasty surgeon from Ludhiana. The biggest set back of Jayas life took place in April 2021. Where she lost her beloved daughter Rachita and her 7 month child on 28th April due to deadly virus Corona. This has badly affected her and her family. She realized she has to look after her family and 90 years old mother suffering with Dementia gave her strength and she started applying all healing techniques on herself and family which she was using to heal others. Due to her own healing she could help herself and her family to deal with pain and agony. She decided to fulfil her daughters dream of opening a wellness centre in Shillong. She is already running her Holistic healing centre in Shillong with the name of Holistic Healing Paradise more than two decades. But now she wants to add field of Psychiatry also for the people wants to show to Psychiatrist. Gradually she plans to add more alternative medicines in future. People will have access to Psychiatrist as well Alternative Holistic healing. Former will be with medication and later without medication purely working on Mental, Physical and Soul level. Prime focus will be on the wellness of people so they can have happy and healthy life on Auto pilot.

Jaya Kalra is MSc. in Zoology specialized in Fisheries, she also holds a B.Ed. degree but chose to pursue painting and Healing as a fulltime career. Jaya Kalra is also well known Artist (painter) from North East India, Shillong, Meghalaya. Being a healer, she has given a new dimension to both her art and healing by using art to heal. She creates customised art work for people according to their problems or illness, physical or mental. These are created with appropriate colours and symbols through which the person gets healed by visualising them. She has received tremendous success with this procedure. She believes if people can’t reach you then you must reach them. She calls it Art with a Purpose.