Daily Times

ISLAMABAD: Tanzara Gallery on Thursday, held an exhibition of renowned Pakistani painter Jamil Naqsh’s works for the general public and art enthusiasts.

People from various walks of life attended the exhibition and appreciated the work and aesthetics of Jamil Naqsh.

Naqsh, who is an artist of eminent stature, needs no introduction and holds a key position in artistic spheres. He is not just a renowned figure in Pakistan but all over the world as well.

Described and known as a Painter’s Painter, Naqsh has worked with various artistic themes. However, one of his paintings that depicted a woman and pigeons, he has explored and reinvented himself in more ways than one.

The exhibition was titled A Homage To Ethereal Beauty and offered a unique collection of incredibly beautiful paintings that reverberated messages of love, hope, peace and tranquility. The skill with which he executes these canvases is unmatched. His muted palate, in warm sepia tones gives impressions of aged works on paper. These life size canvases have an extraordinary quasi sculptural quality that they almost seem to invite one to touch them. He renders them with great dexterity and possesses that exceptional inherent sensitivity in the power of his strokes. Beautiful isolated females accompanied by pigeons are portrayed as icons that speak the commonality universal human sentiments. All in all, Naqsh’s works spoke a collective language that crosses all barriers and offers the viewers a glimpse of the familiar, the domestics and the soothing.

The exhibition that commenced on Thursday in the capital, will continue until April 30, 2018 at Tanzara Gallery.

Published in Daily Times, April 20^th 2018.