Meena Chopra

Meena Chopra Painter and Poet ...Review

Review: K.s. Raju

Her Quest for Elusive

Sensitivity that Meena Captures with the stroke of her brush.....

Painting and Poems by Meena Chopra turned out to be a veritable feast to the eyes......

She is Blessed with a unerring of colour.........

Art works have certain lilt, an inditinct lyricism.............

She breaks away from the conventional in her use of luminous colours...................

What seems to be her most occupying obsession is the idea is the flight, the vastness of space.......

Rarely does one come across a painter who happens to write poetry with considerable elan

MISSISSAUGA - 'Residual Dreams,' a mixed media exhibition featuring paintings and poems by Meena Chopra opened at the Central Library which ran through the month of December.

Born and raised in Naini Tal, she is trained as a textile designer. Chopra immigrated to Canada about two years ago and lives in Mississauga.

Before moving to Canada, she was running an advertising agency in Delhi. Chopra, a past secretary for the Poetry Club of India, has received honorable mention in the Mississauga Library System's 2003 Poetry Writing Contest for her piece, Stillness Moves. Her paintings are with many corporations, government bodies, hotels and private collections in India, Canada and other countries, the release added.

PHOTO ABOVE, 'Nest,' a painting by Meena Chopra using oil pastels on paper. PHOTO BELOW, Meena Chopra. (Photos, as they appear www.

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In the paintings there is a strong sense of movement of forms suspended in the back drop of diffenent hues of luminous and bold colours.........

THE MISSISSAUGA NEWS
Poems, paintings featured in library exhibit
Artist Meena Chopra in the spotlight



Chris Clay
Dec 9, 2005


Flowing prose meets splattered paint at the ongoing artistic exhibition, Residual Dreams, presented by Mississauga's Meena Chopra.

The mixed-media exhibition features snippets of poems penned by Chopra along with a dozen of her abstract paintings. The show runs until Dec. 30 on the second floor at the Central Library.

There is no general theme for the works in the show. Chopra said she feared her inner-creativity wouldn't shine through in just poems or paintings. So, she decided to put on a show that would allow her to express herself through both words and visuals.

"The two forms tend to compliment each other," said Chopra, co-founder of Cross Currents Indo-Canadian International Arts. "Art exists as a way for one to truly understand oneself. I present art for my own satisfaction and personal growth. I find that you have to move outside to create something found on the inside."

Pictures of the dream-like and colourful art can be found at meenachopra2000. Also available for perusal are selections of the poetry.

One such poem is White Canvas.

"Your vivid stroke/etched in my memory/bestirred my stark white canvas. A passing night clasped me/replete with colours."

At the show, the framed poems are strategically placed next to the paintings. Sometimes, the poem will relate to its respective painting while other times, the placement is seemingly random.

In 1996, Chopra's collection of poems were published as a book entitled Ignited Lines, which was released in London, England.

Chopra, a past secretary for the Poetry Club of India, has had her poems translated and published in German. Also, she received honourable mention in the Mississauga Library System's 2003 Poetry Writing Contest for her piece, Stillness Moves.


Meena Chopra's current show at the Central Library features her poems and paintings.







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It is a unique blend of poetry
and paintings exhibited at
Mississauga’s Central Library,
second floor. Held under the
theme “Residual Dreams”, the
exhibition presents works of
Indo-Canadian artist Meena
Chopra, and it is on till Dec 30.


Fearing that her inner-creativity
wouldn’t shine through
in just poems or paintings,
Chopra decided to put up a
show that would allow her to
express herself through words
and visuals together. Framed
poems are significantly placed
next to the paintings.Sometimes a poem relate to its
respective painting while at
other times, the placement is
done at random.
Chopra is also the co-founder
of Cross Currents Indo-Canadian
International Arts. In 1996,
Chopra’s collection of poems
were published in a book titled
Ignited Lines, which was
released in London. She received
honorable mention in the
Mississauga Library System’s
2003 Poetry Writing Contest for
her piece ‘Stillness Moves’.
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