Kiran Rai-Bhullar

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A Ritual of SeasonsandA Woman’s World

On view at UNA until 6 November.

Acrylic on wood panel · 2026 · 9 panels

A Ritual of Seasons

A story about introspection and life’s seasons, as a woman sets out on a journey: diving in headfirst, reflecting inward, surrendering to life’s current, becoming, and finally blooming.

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A Ritual of Seasons running along the banquette wall at UNA Pizza + Wine on 17th Avenue, Calgary — Installed at UNA Pizza + Wine, 17th Avenue SW, Calgary, from June 2026. Photograph by Elisha Lozares, Masigla Studio.

Journey, a figure in red climbing green hills beneath a full moon

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Journey

2026
Acrylic on wood panel
36 × 48 in (91 × 122 cm)

A woman in red climbs steadily uphill, the moon lighting the path ahead. There is distance still to travel, and she keeps going, arms open, dress trailing, carried by something deeper than certainty. Journey is the courage of beginning: moving forward before the destination comes into view.

Dive, a woman’s face with a gold nath meeting the surface of green water

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Dive

2026
Acrylic on wood panel
36 × 48 in (91 × 122 cm)

Caught between air and water, she gives herself to the depths, slipping beneath the surface as she crosses from what is known into what lies below. Dive is an invitation to go deeper: to feel fully, to face the unknown, and to find what lives beneath the surface of the self.

Reflection, bangled hands pouring water over a woman in red standing in rippling green water

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Reflection

2026
Acrylic on wood panel
36 × 48 in (91 × 122 cm)

She stands in the water as two hands pour it over her, sending ripples out in every direction. Her reflection forms and dissolves on the moving surface. Reflection is about how the way we see ourselves keeps changing: experience reshapes us, and we come to recognize ourselves through the waters we have moved through.

Journey, Dive and Reflection, the first three panels of A Ritual of Seasons, installed at UNA Pizza + Wine — Journey, Dive and Reflection. Photograph by Elisha Lozares, Masigla Studio.

Surrender, a woman in a small boat on green water beneath the moon, with white birds and a mango branch

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Surrender

2026
Acrylic on wood panel
36 × 48 in (91 × 122 cm)

Alone in a boat beneath the moon, she drifts across still water. There are no oars, and no destination in sight. Surrender is the moment she no longer needs to steer: trusting the current, loosening her grip on certainty, and letting life carry her where it will.

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Become

2026
Acrylic on wood panel
36 × 48 in (91 × 122 cm)

At the water’s edge she sits beneath an enormous moon, looking toward the horizon as the landscape opens in front of her, vast and luminous. Become is the space between who she was and who she is becoming, and the quiet realization that the change has already begun.

Bloom, a willow over a green field with a small figure in red lying in the grass

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Bloom

2026
Acrylic on wood panel
36 × 48 in (91 × 122 cm)

Beneath the wide canopy of a willow, a woman in red lies in the grass with a piece of fruit in her hand, looking up. After the journey, the dive, the reflection and the surrender, she finally rests. Bloom is the recognition of what has already grown: the sweetness of the life she has cultivated, and permission to rest in its shade.

Reflection through Bloom, the last four panels of A Ritual of Seasons, installed at UNA Pizza + Wine — Reflection, Surrender, Become and Bloom. Photograph by Elisha Lozares, Masigla Studio.

A Woman’s World

Where A Ritual of Seasons ends, A Woman’s World begins. She finds inner peace, embraces her liberation, and rests, planting the seeds from which the cycle starts again.

As they hang, left to right

A Woman’s World installed at UNA Pizza + Wine on 17th Avenue, Calgary — Installed at UNA Pizza + Wine, 17th Avenue SW, Calgary, from June 2026. Photograph by Elisha Lozares, Masigla Studio.

Peace, a woman in red seated beneath a large moon beside still water and dark hills

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Peace

2026
Acrylic on wood panel
36 × 36 in (91 × 91 cm)

She sits quietly in an open landscape: still water, distant mountains, the soft glow of the moon. There is nothing left to chase and nowhere else she needs to be. Peace is the quiet that arrives once she stops searching outside herself for what she already carries.

Liberation, a figure in red running through golden grass beneath the moon

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Liberation

2026
Acrylic on wood panel
36 × 36 in (91 × 91 cm)

She runs through tall grass with her arms open, her red dress lifted by her stride and the wind. Liberation is the moment of release, when she stops carrying what was never hers to hold. The freedom here is a homecoming: joyful, weightless and completely alive.

Planting Seeds, a woman in red lying in the grass beneath a willow, holding a mango

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Planting Seeds

2026
Acrylic on wood panel
36 × 56 in (91 × 142 cm)

Beneath the sweeping branches of a willow, a woman in red rests in the shade with a mango in her hands. The tree above her is rooted, abundant and alive. Planting Seeds is about what we nurture long before we can see what it will become: creating, cultivating, and trusting that what we pour ourselves into will bear fruit. And about pausing long enough to enjoy what has already grown.

A Woman’s World seen from the dining room at UNA Pizza + Wine, beside the timber column — Seen from the dining room. Photograph by Elisha Lozares, Masigla Studio.

The cycle starts again.

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