Vikas Bidani hosted a Wine & Cheese do at Amsterdam
Kitchen & Bar for Artist & Designer Leena Bidani and Aashkara Bidani to
celebrate their appearing on the cover of Ravishing Wedding & Style
Hut for April 2014 issues.
The party was attended by known names of the Delhi social
circle including Bharat & Reshma
Grover, Pawan Sachdeva, Jaspreet Singh,
Amit Talwar Treekaya, Ankit Nagpal , Jawahar Monga, Rooma Sekhri, Rajeev Gupta,
Dolly J., Parul Grover, Akaash K Agarwal, Sonia Bajaj, Sumita Dass, Sanjay Kaushik,
Harsh Singh, Amit Talwar, Twinkle Vinayak, Shalini Chauhan & many More
“Every artist dips
his brush in his own soul, and paints his own nature into his pictures.” -
Henry Ward Beecher
Similar to the saying of Beecher is Leena Bidani, a
self-taught artist known for expressing her individuality and emotions through
her paintbrush.
Born and brought up in Delhi and a product of Convent of
Jesus & Mary, New Delhi, Leena graduated in Philosophy Honours from Lady
Sri Ram College, New Delhi. Later, she
pursued a course in advertising from North Eastern University, Boston, USA.
Her keen interest in the arts, sketching and painting since
childhood, made her remarkably different from others. Leena came with her first
solo exhibition in 2009, which was an instant successful show, where her works
were quite appreciated. Just after her first take, she banged on with two more
solo and three joint exhibitions. The central and primary theme of most of
Leena’s works is women oriented. Her extraneous command over the form and sense
of balance between form, line and colour, showcase her intrinsic gift. She
beautifully bestows poise and vigorous suppleness to the eccentric curves that
carve her images. One can easily find vibrant colours and deep tones with bold
strokes in her art work that emphasizes her sentiments and individuality and
make them stand apart.
Leena has also walked the ramp for PETA & Sanjana Jon
& for Designer Pawan Sachdeva for Festival Of Hope & for his resort
wear collection. In 2013 she also featured in a coffee table book - DELHI PRIMES
- Women In Power.
While the discussion of visual art, the first thing which
flashes into mind are paintings, drawings, sculptures, films and photographs.
But without carving the usual and normal path, Leena transformed her art into
wearable art by launching ties, scarfs, stoles, clutches and hand bags under
the label –“Leena B.” in November 2013. Leena with her daughter Aashkara
Bidani, who designed her own collection of scarfs & clutches, ventured into
retail by opening a store under the name – Aashkara’s Bling Closet at DLF Place
Mall, Saket, New Delhi.
Leena for a long time wanted to translate her colorful and
modern art on clothes. Finally associating in work with Aashkara, who
co-designed with her, she was able to use her creative skills by finally having
her designs on clothes and bags too.
In the words of Leena, “Aashkara is my inspiration
throughout. She is very well versed with fashion and helps me with her fashion
sensibility.”
Besides products of Leena B. – the store retails fashion
jewelry, accessories, pashmina stoles etc.
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