I'm a third-generation jeweller from Jaipur. As a child, I'd sit in my father's and uncles' office sorting stones like I knew what I was doing. My cousin and I would collect the defected ones in a box and compare who'd found the best ones. Growing up like that teaches you something without anyone saying it: the detail is the work. We learnt to look closely before we learnt anything else.

Jaipur taught me colour before anyone taught me design. The pink walls, the jharokhas, the patterns carved around old gates, stones sorted by hand into shades that don't have names. Nobody here needs to be told that colour makes you feel something. You just know.

Later came FIT and GIA in New York, working with designers I'd grown up admiring, and eventually a life split between London and Jaipur. Moving between the US, the UK and India, I started noticing how women everywhere actually wear their jewellery - what they reach for daily, what stays in the drawer. I sketch what I see, wherever I am, and collect colour palettes from every trip. And every sketch ends up in our family workshop in Jaipur, in the hands of artisans who've known me since I was a girl.

So that's Lunaya, really. The colour I find out in the world, made the way Jaipur has always made beautiful things.