Amna Rehan

Amna was born in Islamabad, Pakistan in 1977. She moved to Milton Keynes in 2022 after visiting it and being impressed with the centre, the family activities and the parks. She was a trained artist and had just completed her Foundation in Art Therapy at Hertfordshire University. She had met other artists, including Salvation artists, through the MK Gallery and Westbury Arts Centre. She was good friends with an architectural artist at Westbury, who was also from Pakistan. As an artist she was inspired by nature and used it as a metaphor.

She lived in Brooklands, which was friendly and had people from many backgrounds, but it was also a construction site. When she first arrived, she found the underpasses daunting, but she got used to them. She found the traffic a bit crazy.

She hadn’t lived in Milton Keynes long enough to notice changes. The open spaces were her favourite places, for her art and family activity. She hadn’t found anything she disliked. She saw expansion in the future and worried about access to healthcare.

She had visited the Museum and would like it to bring the beauty of the old outdoor spaces indoors.