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From: 25th to 31st 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
