Category: Art Exhibition

From: 7^th to 13^th September 2026

“UNTOLD STORIES”

A Solo Show of Paintings

By Renowned Artist Rajesh Kedare

VENUE:

Jehangir Art Gallery

Hirji Gallery

M.G. Road, Kala Ghoda,

Mumbai 400001

Timing:  11am to 7pm

Contact: +91 9890404641

UNTOLD STORIES — Exploring the Mysterious World Between Books and Their Readers

Solo Exhibition of Paintings by Rajesh Kedare at Jehangir Art Gallery, Mumbai.

Mumbai, September 2026:  Artist Rajesh Kedare presents UNTOLD STORIES, a solo exhibition of paintings exploring the fascinating relationship between books, readers and the unseen stories that unfold between them.

For Kedare, among the most beautiful sights in the world are books and people absorbed in reading them. A reader may be physically present before us, yet the mind is somewhere else—wandering through another world, another time, another life. It is this quiet sense of mystery that forms the heart of Untold Stories.

The exhibition looks beyond the stories printed on the pages of a book to explore the stories that begin to form around it. A book can awaken a memory, change a thought, create an emotion, spark curiosity or simply leave behind a silence. Sometimes, the most interesting story is not the one being read, but the one unfolding within the reader.

Through gestures, expressions, relationships and imagined moments, Kedare’s paintings invite viewers to pause and wonder about the invisible worlds carried by every reader.

“Every book tells a story. Every reader carries another. And somewhere between the two are countless stories that may never be spoken—the Untold Stories.”

This show was inaugurated on 8th September 2026 by Honorable Guests – Jitendra Joshi Renowned actor, Yogesh Shirsat – well-known actor, Ashok Hinge – Renowned artist among others.

  

“UNTOLD STORIES” A Solo Show Of Paintings By Renowned Artist Rajesh Kedare In Jehangir Art Gallery

From: 2^nd to 7^th September 2026

“SHIVOHUM 2.0: THE UNIFICATION”

Art Exhibition by  Renowned artist Dr. Amitabh Shrivastav

VENUE:

Jehangir Art Gallery,

161-B, M.G. Road

Kala Ghoda, Mumbai 400001
Timing: 11am to 7pm

+91 98990 97791

MUMBAI, INDIA — Biophilic Visual artist Dr. Amitabh Shrivastav will present his solo exhibition, “Shivohum 2.0: The Unification,” from 2 to 7 September 2026 at the Jehangir Art Gallery in Mumbai. Rooted in the artist’s ongoing exploration of coexistence, oneness in duality, and interconnectedness, the exhibition examines the convergence of seemingly contradictory forces through a powerful visual palette of red and black.

The exhibition brings together richly layered acrylic on canvas paintings and innovative Biophilic installation utilizing vetiver roots. Through color, gesture, and texture,

Dr. Shrivastav explores the philosophical union of Shiva and Shakti, represented through the contrasting yet interdependent energies of black and red. Rather than treating these forces as oppositional, the artist considers their entanglement fundamental to creation itself. Red evokes vitality, passion, and generative energy, while black embodies depth, mystery, and the unknown. Their convergence creates a visual tension that gradually transforms into harmony, suggesting a fluid understanding of identity, nature, and existence beyond fixed binaries.

In “Shivohum 2.0: The Unification,” Dr. Shrivastav draws profound inspiration from the intricate structures and ecological intelligence of vetiver roots (Chrysopogon zizanioides). Known for deep-reaching systems that hold soil, conserve groundwater, and participate in networks of natural exchange, vetiver serves as a metaphor for interconnected life. The organic complexity of these roots informs the artist’s visual vocabulary—where branching forms, rhythmic movements, and enveloping voids evoke bodily structures, circulation, memory, and the womb as a site of creation.

Dr. Shrivastav holds a degree in Fine Arts from Banaras Hindu University and a PhD in Art & Design from the Sorbonne in France. His multidisciplinary practice spans painting, sculpture, mixed-media installation, AI-robotics, and public art. By merging ecological, philosophical, and spiritual thought with contemporary artistic processes, his work deeply investigates the relationship between human existence and the natural world.

“Shivohum 2.0: The Unification” invites viewers to contemplate their own relationship with the body, nature, and the invisible forces that bind seemingly separate entities together. Ultimately, the exhibition proposes coexistence not as the erasure of difference, but as the realization of wholeness through deep interconnectedness.

This show was inaugurated on 2nd September 2026 by Honorable Guest Mr. Prayag Shukla(Poet, Curator, Art Critic), in the presence of Prof. Ganesh Tartare(Eminent Artist), Ms. Simran Ahuja (Eminent Actress, TV talk show Host), Anjali Arora(Art Curator) among others.

   

“SHIVOHUM 2.0: THE UNIFICATION” Art Exhibition By Renowned Artist Dr. Amitabh Shrivastav In Jehangir Art Gallery

From 31st August to 6^th September 2026

“PRAVAH”

Solo Show of Paintings

By well-known artist

Anjali Prabhakar

VENUE:

Jehangir Art Gallery

M.G. Road, Kala Ghoda,

Kala Ghoda, Mumbai 400001

Timing: 11am to 7pm

Contact: +91 9425195496

PRAVĀH

There is a flow within us that is rarely still. It moves quietly beneath everyday life—through memory, emotion, thought, and experience. We may not always notice it, but it shapes how we feel, how we respond, and ultimately, how we see the world. It is this inner movement that forms the starting point for Pravāh, a body of work by Anjali Prabhakar. Anjali’s practice has developed alongside a deep engagement with meditation and an awareness of the energy that exists within and around us. She does not approach the canvas with a finished image in mind. Often, there is simply a feeling, a colour, or an impulse that she wants to follow. The painting then becomes a way of staying with that feeling and seeing where it takes her.

The most interesting aspect of her process is that the artist does not try to explain an emotion through the painting, nor does she try to give it a fixed form. Instead, she allows herself to work intuitively, responding to what is happening on the canvas. She allows these discoveries to happen rather than forcing the painting towards a predetermined conclusion.

Colour is perhaps where the energy of these paintings is felt most immediately. Anjali responds to colour instinctively, allowing it to carry the mood of the moment rather than assigning it a fixed meaning. The deep reds, blues, and luminous passages that recur through the works can feel intense, warm, quiet, or expansive, sometimes within the same painting. They draw us in before we have had the chance to make sense of them. In that sense, colour becomes more than what we see—it becomes something we feel. Meditation, on the other hand, has also taught her the value of stillness. For her, stillness is not a withdrawal from the world, but a way of becoming more attentive to what is happening within. It is in this quieter state that she finds the space to notice subtle shifts in feeling and energy, and to allow them to enter the work without forcing them into words or fixed forms.

Pravāh is Sanskrit for flow or current—it is ultimately a meeting place. It is about the things we carry within us and the ways they shift with time. It is about allowing rather than controlling, and about recognising that not everything we experience needs to be explained in order to be felt.

Pravāh, therefore, is that meeting point—a space between stillness and movement, between what is felt and what can be expressed, between the inner world and the canvas.

This show was inaugurated on 31^st August 2026 by Honourable Chief Guest Mrs. Nidhi Chaudhari, IAS, Director – NGMA, Mumbai

Guests of Honor – Prof. Him Kumar Chatterjee, Vice Chancellor, Sir J.J.School of Art, Architecture & Design, Mumbai, Shri. Prayag Shukla, Art Critic, Poet, Fiction Writer, Curator, Shri. Rajendra Patil, President – The Bombay Art Society, Director – India Art Festival, Shri. Praveen Upadhye, Artist, Founder Director, Gallery Pioneer New Delhi

Shraddha Purnaye  (Art Researcher & Writer)

  

“PRAVAH” Solo Show Of Paintings By Anjali Prabhakar In Jehangir Art Gallery

From: 25th August to 31st August 2026

SPANDANE

Sacred Moments Beyond Words

Solo Show of Paintings

By

Renowned artist Sachin Sagare

VENUE: 

Jehangir Art Gallery

161-B, M.G. Road

Kala Ghoda, Mumbai 400001

Timing: 11am to 7pm

Contact: +91 9011251869

Email: mindscape.sachin@gmail.com

Spandane

Spandane is delicate, but potent. Spandane literally means vibration. It’s a twinge in your heart far more powerful than memory alone. This particular brand of manipulation is familiar territory for painter Sachin Sagare, who in his seventeenth solo show is proving himself a consummate craftsman of this complex emotion. His twenty-one elegiac paintings on display each take the form of womanhood, but what drives this artist’s moody remembrances is the figurative element within each work: Spandane surrogates that what is always beautiful, winsome, and perfectly attired. Today’s practice of acrylic painting is itself fueled by nostalgia, reminding us of a purer time when art seemed to have a sacred quality, either literally or figuratively. What’s remarkable about his practice, however, is the way he uses different strategies to describe not only memory but also the fading of memory that stirs in us a longing to be reunited with our past.

In his dreamy paintings of women in verdant landscapes, Sagare toys with conventional associations of nature, femininity, childhood and innocence. The foregrounds of his pictures are occupied by colorful women. Sagare paints these with a deft, brushy touch that gives the surfaces of his canvases a sensuously tactile presence. The diminutive figures of women that Sagare inserts into these environments look almost as if they’d been present in nostalgia, Sagare’s primary focus is on the unspoken the silent scenes that carry thought beneath their calm surface. He gazes through these images to understand how history lives in bodies and behaviors, especially those of women, who often remained functional yet invisible within dominant narratives. With few if any signs of civilization in view, you get the feeling they’ve escaped not only from parental supervision and the rules of their community but from modernity in general and the mess made of the world by the Industrial Revolution. It’s a short step to see Sagare’s heroines’ escape into the bosom of Mother Nature as a romantic protest against the dominion of patriarchal consciousness. Insofar as the artist himself may be said to personify the life and freedom of art and imagination. This gives Sagare’s paintings a touching personal urgency. He’s projecting his own sense of what it takes to be an artist in the modern world. You have to be some kind of outlaw. He employs an academic style, showing off the gestural nature of figure painting. Every stroke reflects a motion, yet everything is precise, with intention.

Very few contemporary figurative painters reveal subtle enigmatic juxtaposition. Artist such as Sachin Sagare uses caricature, irony and broad stylization to deliberately provoke, filtered through a faux academic plainness, the paintings in the current series done between 2025 and 2026 depict multi figure scenes populated by late adolescent women engaged in enigmatic encounters, or just as often disengaged and daydreaming. Women roam in mass in sarees and blouses, barefoot with vermilion smeared over their forehead. All the paintings seem woven from disparate sources. Sachin Sagare’s female protagonists seem to project something different from these sources, perhaps a more contemporary hauteur. They never fully declare just what they are up to, and seem unhurried by events. The multiple scenarios on display are like formal qualities of the paintings, still ever so slightly sketchy and undercooked, but with much to savor for those who like their mysteries that way.

This show was inaugurated on 25th August 2026 by Honourable Chief Guest – Parvez Damania Director – Mumbai Art House, Guest of Honor – Sonam Shivdutt Das Chairperson –Shivdutt Das Art Foundation

Abhijeet Gondkar (Art Curator & Writer)

  

“SPANDANE” Solo Show Of Paintings By Renowned Artist Sachin Sagare In Jehangir Art Gallery

“The Sixth Sense”

A Group Exhibition of paintings & sculpture

Five Contemporary Renowned artists – Ajey Dalvi, Kavita Salunke, Deepak Thopate, Dr. Tanaji Awaghade, & Surendra Kudapane.

VENUE:

Jehangir Art Gallery

Auditorium Hall

M.G. Road, Kala Ghoda,

Mumbai 400001

Timing: 11am to 7pm

Contact: +91 98 81 23 24 25

THE SIXTH SENSE

A Group Exhibition of Paintings & Sculpture

The Sixth Sense brings together five distinctive artistic journeys—Ajey Dalvi, Kavita Salunke, Deepak Thopate, Dr. Tanaji Awaghade, and Surendra Kudapane. The exhibition explores the intuitive connection between art, emotion, perception, and inner vision.

Through colour, form, texture, geometry, sculpture, and landscape, each artist presents a unique perspective of the world. From Dalvi’s expressive colours and emotions, Awaghade’s spiritual geometric compositions, Thopate’s expressive sculptures, Kudapane’s layered abstraction, to Salunke’s evocative landscapes shaped by memory and place, every work reflects an individual artistic voice. The Sixth Sense celebrates creativity beyond words and invites viewers to experience art through intuition and feeling.

AJEY DALVI

Ajey Dalvi is a Kolhapur-based painter whose artistic practice explores change, transformation and innovation through colour. His work emerges from an interplay between the conscious and subconscious mind, where emotions find their unique language through vibrant and layered compositions. Dalvi considers colour the “God particle”, a fundamental element capable of evoking and releasing moments of happiness. His paintings bring together transparent and opaque layers of colour, creating depth, movement and emotional resonance. Through this dynamic approach, colour becomes more than a visual element—it becomes a medium of emotion, inner experience and transformation, inviting viewers to connect with their own intuitive and emotional responses.

KAVITA SALUNKE

Pune-based artist Kavita Salunke explores landscape, memory, atmosphere and emotion through expressive paintings and evocative abstractions. Her work draws inspiration from coastal settlements, urban spaces, architecture, textures and open landscapes, transforming everyday observations into deeply personal visual experiences. Through layered textures, nuanced colour palettes and dynamic compositions, she captures not only the physical character of a place but also its mood, memories and emotional resonance. Themes of movement, transition and belonging remain central to her practice. Her paintings move beyond representation, creating a space where observation meets imagination and emotion, inviting viewers to discover beauty and stories within the familiar.

DEEPAK THOPATE

Sculptor Deepak Dinkar Thopate is a leading contemporary sculptor from Maharashtra, known for his realistic approach, technical precision and exceptional craftsmanship. A Sculpture graduate of Sir J. J. School of Art, Mumbai, his practice reflects a deep understanding of form, proportion, anatomy and aesthetics. He has created public monuments, sculptures of eminent personalities and diverse sculptural compositions, combining creative expression with technical mastery. His works have been exhibited at Jehangir Art Gallery, Mumbai, and several state and national exhibitions. A recipient of the Maharashtra State Award, Thopate’s sculptures reveal expressive character, refined sensitivity and artistic excellence, establishing a distinctive identity in contemporary Indian sculpture.

TANAJI AWAGHADE

Dr. Tanaji Awaghade’s artistic practice is deeply rooted in spirituality, symbolism and sacred geometry. For over 25 years, he has explored the Shri Yantra on canvas, using geometric forms and intricate patterns to express the harmonious connection between all existence. His paintings engage with concepts of chakras, meditation, positive energy and the relationship between the subtle and the macrocosm. Inspired by the sacred geometry of temples and his belief in a divine universal force, Awaghade transforms geometry into a language of spiritual experience. His works invite viewers to look beyond the fragmented material world and connect with inner light, consciousness and universal harmony.

Surendra Kudapane

Surendra Kudapane is a distinguished contemporary Indian painter and sculptor whose work explores the relationship between nature, human emotions and the subconscious. His distinctive visual language blends realism and abstraction, using balanced colour harmonies, transparent layers, expressive textures and geometric structures to create a sense of serenity, harmony and introspection. A Gold Medalist with academic training from Abhinav Kala Mahavidyalaya, Pune, Sir J. J. School of Art, Mumbai, and S.B. University of Fine Arts, Karnataka, he has received several State and National honours. With 20+ solo and 125+ group exhibitions, his works are held in public, corporate and private collections in India and abroad.

This show was inaugurated on 18^th August 2026 by Hon. Guests – Mr. Shankar Jadhav, Ex. MD – BSE Investments, Nidhi Chaudhari IAS & Director of NGMA, Mr.Rohit Pawar Member of Legislative Assembly, Dr. Kishor Ingle, Director, Directorate of Art, Maharashtra,, Advocate Chitra Mete, Arts & Culture among others.

 

“The Sixth Sense” Paintings & Sculpture Exhibition By 5 Contemporary Renowned Artists In Jehangir Art Gallery

From: 4^th to 10^th August 2026

“Eternal Whispers of Stone”

Solo Show of Paintings

By

Well-known artist Uma Krishnamoorthy

VENUE:

Nehru Centre Art Gallery

AC Gallery,

Dr. Annie Besant Road

Worli, Mumbai 400018

Timing: 11am to 7pm

Email: uma.k1207@gmail.com

Eternal Whispers of Stone presents a compelling ongoing series of paintings by Mumbai-based artist Uma Krishnamoorthy, who turns her gaze towards India’s sacred architecture as repositories of memory, devotion and cultural continuity. Rather than treating temples as monuments frozen in history, Uma approaches them as living presences whose meanings continue to evolve through ritual, landscape and the everyday lives that surround them.

Working primarily in oil on linen or canvas, the artist journeys across the Indian subcontinent; from the Golden Temple in Amritsar and the sculptural magnificence of Kamakhya in Assam to the temple towns of Kashi, Konark, Kasardevi, Kopeshwar and beyond. Yet this exhibition is not intended as a documentary survey. Instead, it is an exploration of atmosphere: of light settling upon ancient stone, reflections dissolving architecture into water, mountain silence framing a solitary shrine, and the quiet passage of time etched into weathered surfaces.

Uma’s paintings are marked by an instinctive sensitivity to light and structure. Architectural forms emerge not merely as feats of craftsmanship but as vessels carrying centuries of faith, craftsmanship and collective memory. Her compositions frequently linger on thresholds, stairways, domes and sculptural details, inviting the viewer to pause before entering these sacred spaces both physically and imaginatively. The measured handling of colour and light allows each site to retain its distinct geographical and cultural identity while suggesting a shared spiritual vocabulary that transcends region.

The exhibition also reflects on the remarkable resilience of India’s temple traditions observed during her repeated travels. These structures have witnessed changing kingdoms, political upheavals and shifting cultural landscapes, yet they continue to function as centres of worship, gathering and continuity. In Uma’s hands, architecture becomes less an archaeological relic than a living archive where history, belief and daily life remain inseparable.

Eternal Whispers of Stone offers viewers an opportunity to reconsider sacred architecture beyond its iconic status. It invites a slower engagement with places where stone has absorbed centuries of footsteps, prayers and silence, revealing temples not only as architectural achievements but also as enduring custodians of India’s civilisational memory.

This show was inaugurated on 4th August 2026 by the Hon. Guests Smt. Sreedevi Surya & Shri. Challa Sreenivasulu Setty, Chairman, State Bank of India

Sushma Sabnis (Art Curator & Writer)

 

“Eternal Whispers Of Stone” Solo Show Of Paintings By Uma Krishnamoorthy In Nehru Centre Art Gallery

From: 9^th to 15^th June 2026

“Pigments and paradox”

A Group Exhibition of Paintings by

Featuring Artists:

Bharati Arya, K.K. Sharma, Neelu Kanwaria, Piyali Sarkar, Sanjay Soni, Tanishka Khandelwal

VENUE:

Jehangir Art Gallery

Gallery – 2

161-B, M.G. Road, Kala Ghoda,

Mumbai 400001

Timing: 11am to 7pm

Contact: +91 9024623501

Title of the show- Pigments and paradox 

Striking a Harmony of Form, Line, and Tradition: Six Contemporary Artists to Showcase at Jehangir Art Gallery MUMBAI, INDIA — The historic Jehangir Art Gallery in Kala Ghoda is set to present a powerful, multi-voiced group art exhibition featuring six of India’s compelling contemporary creators. Running from 9th June to 15th June 2026, the week-long showcase will exhibit a deeply evocative collection of paintings and creative experiments that challenge and redefine the boundaries of traditional and modern Indian aesthetics. The exhibition brings together a curated selection of works by a distinguished lineup of participating artists:  Bharati Arya,
K K Sharma,  Neelu Kanwaria,  Piyali Sarkar, Sanjay Soni,  Tanishka Khandelwal
Spanning diverse mediums and visual philosophies, the collection balances technical rigor with profound narrative depth. From meticulous structural geometry and reimagined traditional motifs to fluid, emotionally charged abstracts, the exhibition offers connoisseurs and new collectors alike a rare look into a vibrant tapestry of Indian artistic expression.

This show was inaugurated on 9th June 2026 by Hon.Chief Guest Ms. Nidhi Choudhari, IAS, Director of the National Gallery of Modern Art (NGMA), Mumbai.

Guests of Honour: 
Shri Rajendra Patil, Director of the India Art Festival and President of The Bombay Art Society,

Shri Prakash Bal Joshi, Eminent Artist and President of the Artists’ Centre, Mumbai.
Shri Jainkamal Sir, Eminent Artist and master of Typography

   

“Pigments And Paradox” A Group Exhibition Of Paintings By 6 Contemporary Artists In Jehangir Art Gallery

From: 26th May to 1st June 2026

Retrospective show

By Veteran Artist Jain Kamal

VENUE:

Jehangir Art Gallery, 

Auditorium Hall

M.G. Road, Kala Ghoda, Mumbai 400001

Timing: 11am to 7pm

Contact: +91 7039448108

Renowned artist Jain Kamal’s Retrospective show in Jehangir Art Gallery 

A Spiritual Journey of an artist 

Senior artist Jain Kamal’s retrospective at Jehangir Art Gallery, bringing together 101 works, positions itself within an onerous yet compelling proposition: the translation of the ‘Namokar Mantra’ from an ethical utterance into a visual system. In Jain philosophy, this mantra is not supplicatory but hierarchical and ontological. It acknowledges perfected states of being rather than invoking intervention. Its recitation is an act of alignment, a recalibration of the self toward equanimity, restraint, and self-knowledge. The exhibition’s premise rests on extending this inward calibration into the domain of the visible.

Jain Kamal’s practice consistently mobilises script as structure rather than inscription. Letters accumulate into vortices, grids, and concentric dispersals, where language begins to behave as matter: compressing, radiating, dissolving. Elsewhere, manuscript-like grounds and typographic densities evoke the labour of chant-like repetition central to Jain meditative practices, where meaning is not delivered instantly but sedimented through sustained attention.

The reference to Jain cosmology, particularly the notion of cyclical existence and gradations of consciousness, is deployed not as illustrative narrative but as structural principle. The works often stage a movement from dispersion to centre, from multiplicity toward a tentative stillness. This compositional logic mirrors the ethical trajectory embedded in Jain thought: the gradual attenuation of karmic accretions through discipline and awareness.

Crucially, the exhibition’s invocation of global peace emerges as a derivative condition. Within Jain epistemology, peace is neither negotiated nor imposed; it is the by-product of an interior equilibrium achieved through self-regulation. Jain Kamal’s visual strategy: repetition, containment, and centripetal focus, attempts to materialise this proposition: that the ordering of perception precedes the ordering of the world.

The retrospective also folds into itself several parallel strands from the artist’s long professional trajectory. A section titled ‘Namokar Mantra for World Peace’ extends the exhibition’s meditative axis into a broader public-facing rhetoric of ethical coexistence. Another body of work, ‘Ek Fakir Se Doosra Fakir’, presents glimpses from a series of approximately 250 paintings centred on Prime Minister Narendra Modi, positioning political portraiture and public image-making within the artist’s wider engagement with symbolic identity and circulation. Alongside these works, archival material from nearly fifty-five years of design practice for around sixty national newspapers and periodicals is also displayed, foregrounding Jain Kamal’s sustained involvement with print culture, graphic layout, and visual communication across editorial platforms. An Original design portfolio featuring 55 years of work for 60 national newspapers and periodicals will also be on display.

This retrospective, therefore, is best understood not as a devotional display, but as an extended inquiry into whether a rigorously inward philosophy can sustain a contemporary visual language without losing its ethical density and, moreover, how it might extrapolate into a globally aligned peace-making process.

This show was inaugurated on 26th May 2026 by Honorable Chief Guest Shradhyey Dattatreya Hosbale ji, in the presence of Mangalprabhat Lodha, Chandrakant Patil,  Kaushal Vikas, Ghevarchandji Bohra, Vinay Sahasrabuddhe, Vijay Jain, Ashish Shah,

Manju Lodha, Charan Sharma, Ramesh Jain, Kamal Jain, Prakash Kothari, Kishor Khabiya Jain, Dr. Jitendra B Shah, Nirmal Jain, Ganpati Kothari, Mudith Jain, Pro. Banjare, Sureshchandra Sharma, Padmashree Bimal Jain, Vitthal Naadkarni among others

———–Sushma Sabnis (Art Curator & Writer)

 

Renowned Artist Jain Kamal’s Retrospective Show In Jehangir Art Gallery I 26th May To 1st June 2026

From: 25^th to 31^st May 2026

“A Floral Reverie”        

Solo Show of Paintings by eminent artist

Neena Bidikar

VENUE:

Jehangir Art Gallery

Hirji Gallery

M.G. Road, Kala Ghoda, Mumbai 400001

Timing: 11am to 7pm

Contact: +91 9930929996

Neena Bidikar’s solo exhibition, ‘A Floral Reverie,’ unfolds as an intimate encounter with the emotional and sensory life of flowers.

Moving beyond the conventions of decorative floral painting, Neena transforms petals, folds, textures, and colour into immersive fields of feeling, where softness and intensity coexist in delicate balance. Her large-scale canvases magnify fleeting botanical events into spaces of contemplation, drawing viewers into a world where nature appears both fragile and powerfully alive.

Working in a contemporary realist idiom, Neena approaches the flower not as a static object of beauty, but as a living form in transition – blooming, unfurling, fading, and renewing itself in cycles that quietly mirror human emotion. Rich blues, luminous whites, velvety rouges, and layered violets move across the canvas with an almost tactile presence. Light slips across petals like memory itself, revealing subtle tensions between stillness and movement, intimacy and grandeur.

Her long engagement with textile design and visual aesthetics is evident in the fluid orchestration of colour, rhythm, and surface. Yet the works resist excess. Instead, they cultivate attentiveness. Each painting invites the viewer to slow down and inhabit a moment that contemporary life often rushes past, the silent unfolding of beauty in its most transient state.

There is a meditative quality to Neena’s practice. The flowers seem less arranged than encountered, as though emerging from a deeply personal dialogue with nature, time, and perception. Through these works, the artist creates not simply images of blooms, but emotional environments where quiet observation becomes transformative.

‘A Floral Reverie’ offers a rare visual pause, a space where colour breathes, form softens, and the ephemeral presence of nature is allowed to linger just a little longer.

This show was inaugurated on Hon. Chief Guest Mr. Rajiv Mishra(Principal Sir J.J. School of Architecture), Guest of Honour – Ranjana Rane Das (Vice President, BJP Mumbai Mahila Morcha) among others.

This show is curated by Mrs. Anjali Kaur Arora ( Founder – BOA Gallery)

 

“A Floral Reverie” Solo Show Of Paintings By Eminent Artist Neena Bidikar At Jehangir Art Gallery

“Sumitaatman”

Soulful Strokes

Solo Show of Paintings
by Eminent Artist Sumitra Ahlawat

VENUE:

Jehangir Art Gallery

Gallery No. 4

M.G. Road

Kala Ghoda, Mumbai 400001

Timing: 11am to 7pm.

Contact: +91 98682 60250

Sumitaatman:

In an age increasingly drawn toward irony, spectacle, and fragmentation, Sumitra Ahlawat’s paintings return to the enduring language of beauty, devotion, ornamentation, and emotional sincerity. Her works celebrate the richness of Indian cultural memory through luminous portrayals of divine figures, women adorned in traditional attire, musicians, dancers, and moments of quiet spiritual reflection.

Shaped through her art education in Sambhajinagar, Maharashtra, Sumitra’s visual language carries subtle echoes of regional aesthetics, traditional attire, devotional atmospheres, and the warmth of lived Indian cultural experience. She completed a five year Diploma in Fine Arts, building a rigorous academic foundation that later expanded into diverse professional engagements across painting, illustration, broadcasting, and graphic design.

Working across oil, acrylic, charcoal, watercolour, and mixed media, Sumitra creates compositions deeply rooted in feminine figurative traditions while retaining a contemporary softness and immediacy. Her paintings are marked by flowing drapery, elaborate jewellery, expressive gestures, and richly textured surfaces that evoke the visual atmosphere of women at temple rituals, folk celebrations, varied painting traditions, and classical Indian aesthetics.

Alongside her independent artistic practice, Sumitra has also worked professionally across several important institutional spaces. She created oil paintings for the Rajputana Rifles Regiment Centre, Delhi, worked as a graphic artist with Doordarshan, Delhi TV, and UDK, contributed book illustrations for NCERT, and worked on illustration projects for Nandan magazine of HT. These experiences expanded her engagement with both fine art and public visual culture, allowing her practice to move fluidly between institutional, literary, devotional, and popular visual language.

Her devotional works depicting Krishna, Rama, Vitthala, Ganesha, and Radha are imbued with warmth rather than grandeur. These are not distant mythological icons, but intimate presences inhabiting the emotional world of everyday faith. Alongside these sacred images, her portraits of Indian women carry a similar dignity and grace, transforming adornment into a visual language of identity, memory, femininity, and cultural continuity.

Sumitra’s use of colour moves between earthy browns, deep vermilions, luminous golds, and muted monochromes, creating a balance between vibrancy and stillness. Her figures often emerge softly from the surface, as though suspended between dream, remembrance, and lived reality. There is a tenderness in the way the body is painted, not merely as form, but as a carrier of ritual, devotion, beauty, and inherited cultural memory.

Rather than pursuing conceptual excess or detached irony, Sumitra’s practice remains committed to emotional clarity and visual harmony. At a time when contemporary art often distances itself from decorative sensitivity, her paintings quietly reclaim these languages without apology. The decorative in her work becomes a vessel of continuity, intimacy, and cultural remembrance.

Her paintings invite viewers into a contemplative world where devotion, femininity, grace, and figuration coexist not as nostalgia, but as living emotional inheritances that continue to shape the Indian imagination.

This show was Inaugurated on 25th May 2026 by Hon. Guests Dr. Kishor Ingle(Director, Directorate of Art, Maharashtra State), Prof. Narendra Vichare(Chairman, The Bombay Art Society), Shri. Rajendra Patil(President, The Bombay Art Society, Founder – India Art Festival), Dr. Ganesh Tartare, (Former Professor, SirJ.J. School of Art), Shri. Shekhar Sane( Eminent Artist)

 

“Sumitaatman” Solo Show Of Paintings By Eminent Artist Sumitra Ahlawat In Jehangir Art Gallery