I’m Joanna. Iha • Ina Studio began the way most true things do — quietly, privately, before it had a name.

I was a daughter first. Curious, watching, absorbing the particular ways my family moved through the world. The rituals that never got explained because they didn’t need to be, the hands that knew things words couldn’t hold, the stories that lived in the spaces between the telling.

Then I became a mother.

And in that becoming — that disorienting, luminous, ungovernable threshold, I found the work. Not as a concept. As a necessity.

Iha • Ina Studio exists for every woman who has stood in that in-between place. Who felt the little girl in her asking to rest. Who looked at her own mother differently for the first time. Who reached back toward her lola and felt something reach back.

Through Filipino-inspired hand drawn digital illustration and acrylic on canvas, the studio honours matrescence, ancestry and the tender architecture of generational love. The digital illustrations carry the intimacy of everyday moments. The canvases hold the weight of what gets passed down.

Each piece is made slowly and with intention — available as original artworks and limited edition prints - not to decorate a wall, but to say I see you to someone who needed to hear it.

This art is for daughters who are becoming mothers. For mothers who are still daughters. For the lineages that live in our bodies whether we name them or not.

You already belong here.