“Ethereal Visions” Paintings & Sculptures Exhibition by 14 contemporary renowned artists at Nehru Centre Art Gallery

Group Art Exhibition of Paintings & Sculptures

By Contemporary renowned artists - Ram Partap Verma, Debabrata De, Dr. Panchanan Samal, Nilkanth Mondal, Debashis Maity, Chandan Samal, Narottam Das, Sonu Gupta, Purneema Dixit, Itee Jain, Sofaiya Yasmeen, Narendra Kumawat, Himanshu Mohanta, Vishwa Sahni.

Ethereal Visions - A National Art Exhibition

Ethereal Visions” ultimately stands as a profound celebration of the boundless spirit of creativity—an artistic confluence where imagination transcends limitation and expression finds its purest form. Within this space, every artist offers not just their work, but a fragment of their inner world, their emotions, their journeys, and their silent contemplations. Each creation becomes a visual language, speaking beyond words, inviting interpretation, and evoking a deeply personal response.

The exhibition unfolds as a dialogue between the visible and the intangible—where colors, textures, and forms merge to create experiences that are both intimate and universal. It is a realm where the ordinary gently dissolves, making way for the extraordinary to emerge in quiet, unexpected ways. Every artwork becomes a mirror, reflecting not only the artist’s vision but also the viewer’s own thoughts, memories, and emotions.

More than just an exhibition, Ethereal Visions is an immersive experience—an invitation to pause, to observe, and to feel. It encourages a moment of stillness in the midst of life’s constant motion, allowing one to reconnect with the subtle depths of perception and imagination. Here, art is not merely seen; it is encountered, absorbed, and lived.

We warmly invite you to become a part of this journey—where in the presence of art, you may discover not only the voices of diverse artists but also a deeper resonance within yourself. Perhaps, in this shared space of creativity, you will find reflections of your own spirit, quietly waiting to be recognized.

This show will be inaugurated on 26th May 2026 at 5pm by Honourable Chief Guest Mrs. Nina Puri (Renowned Architect)

Vishwa Sahni

Artist and Curator of Ethereal Visions

“A Floral Reverie” Solo Show of Paintings by eminent artist Neena Bidikar at Jehangir Art Gallery

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

Artist: Neena Bidikar’

 

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.

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

‘HABITAT – Echoes of Land and Life’ A Group Exhibition of Paintings by 4 renowned artists in Jehangir Art Gallery

‘HABITAT – Echoes of Land and Life’: A Convergent Exploration of Nature and Humanity

From 26 May to 01 June 2026, the historic Jehangir Art Gallery will host "HABITAT – Echoes of Land and Life," a significant group exhibition featuring four acclaimed artists: N. S. Manohar, S Jayaraj, Maruthi Paila, and R Dhiyaneshwaran. 

The exhibition serves as a profound visual dialogue between the elemental forces of earth and sea and the human lives shaped within their embrace. Through a diverse body of work, the artists navigate the terrains of landscape, memory, and abstraction, reflecting on the lived experiences of rural and coastal communities.

In this collection, the land and sea is portrayed as a rhythmic, transformative presence, while the land serves as a repository for stories of tradition and labour. The artists employ colour as a primary emotional language – moving between quiet, contemplative palettes and vibrant, immersive hues – to capture the "echoes" of places remembered and lives witnessed.

S Jayaraj and Maruthi Paila push the boundaries of form, utilizing textured abstractions to bridge the gap between observed reality and imagined space. N. S. Manohar and R Dhiyaneshwaran present evocative figurative narratives and intimate portrayals of everyday life, grounding the exhibition in the resilience of human tradition.

Collectively, these works resonate with a shared concern for environmental continuity and the fragile balance between human existence and the natural world. "HABITAT" does not seek to present a singular narrative; instead, it offers a constellation of impressions, inviting viewers to pause and reflect on their own connections to place.

 From 26 May to 01 June 2026,

‘HABITAT – Echoes of Land and Life’

a significant group exhibition featuring four acclaimed artists: N. S. Manohar, S Jayaraj, Maruthi Paila, and R Dhiyaneshwaran.

 

VENUE:

Jehangir Art Gallery

161-B, M. G. Road

Kala Ghoda, Mumbai 400001

Timing: 11am to 7pm

Contact: +91 9840265685

“Sumitaatman” Soulful Strokes Solo Show of Paintings by Eminent Artist Sumitra Ahlawat

 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.

 

Artist: Sumitra Ahlawat

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.

Sushma Sabnis

Art Curator & Writer

“Sumitaatman”

Soulful Strokes

Solo Show of Paintings

by Eminent Artist Sumitra Ahlawat

Date: 25 to 31 May 2026

VENUE:

Jehangir Art Gallery

Gallery No. 4

M.G. Road

Kala Ghoda, Mumbai 400001

Timing: 11am to 7pm.

Contact: +91 98682 60250