Rooted in Bloom

Rooted in Bloom
by Prajakta Joshi

On View: August 29 – October 3, 2026
Opening Reception: Wednesday, September 9, 5-7pm
Garden Club Collaboration on view starting Friday, September 25

Artist statement:

Born in Mumbai, raised in Dubai, and with years in the fast-paced design worlds of India and New York, New Jersey, Prajakta Joshi’s life has been an ongoing study in perspective. While her career led her to build her own design agency, her creative soul remains anchored in something gentler and far more enduring: the elemental wisdom of the natural world.

As a practitioner of Yoga and Ayurveda, Prajakta sees life not as a series of fixed moments, but as a quiet, rhythmic dance between Earth, Fire, Water, Air, and Space. These elemental forces do not simply surround us; they flow through our minds and bodies, shaping how we experience growth and change.

In Rooted in Bloom, Prajakta turns her lens toward this subtle energy. Her paintings move beyond traditional depictions of flowers and landscapes, seeking instead to translate the invisible pulse of living things. Her work honors the forces of nature that guide us through transformation, using bold color and gestural forms to translate the emotional and physical impact of movement onto the canvas. Through the softer gradients, gestural forms, she captures the delicate impermanence of nature—the swift rush of air, the subtle shift of light, and the fleeting beauty of a moment caught just before it becomes a memory. Her work reminds us that to truly bloom, we must first allow ourselves to be moved by the quiet forces that sustain us.