Amongst her relatives she could count Mohammad Hidayatullah, Vice President and Chief Justice of India and Huseyn Shaheed Suhrawardy, Premier of Bengal and Prime Minister of Pakistan.
Ikramullah designed and wrote a filmstrip for the NFB film Making Faces, which won the First Prize for Art Education in Oakland, California in 1989.
In a review of Ikramullah's 1994 solo exhibition, Nancy Baele of the Ottawa Citizen wrote that "Her paintings and prints...reflect her view that Canada fosters an interior life, Karachi an exterior one.
She merges the two through collage, a layered look and the compositional constants of architectural arches and cloaked figures to create an emotional tone of dream-like reverie.
[6][7] One reviewer described how Ikramullah's "Westernised education but Ganga-Jamuni moorings helped her in appreciating music, fine arts and the traditional embroidery and designs on clothes.