Over here, in these paintings, by a fine and veteran print-maker - we are treated to a fresh medium of expression as well as subject or life-content. Almost all works are an imaginative study of feminity in its diverse postures and colourations. The moods are myriad, and yet one and all are benign, never choleric or shrewish. It is, as though, the artist were at pains to impress upon us the essentially reposeful quality of womanhood. That quality alone goes to make for home, a stable ground beneath human feet in a restless social setting. War and its alarms are far from this genre. But one is almost tempted to ask: Is such repose really possible in our falling to pieces, restive times? Thus, this work is not merely about maidens, it may be construed to be about much more. It is about soothing frayed tempers. Vibrant, never irritating, well-balanced colourations bring their success about.
These suave female figures in the painters creating eye look at us directly in the simplest of settings. Their eyes meet our own with a gentle candour which we invariably respond. We are thus in contact with such distinct personalities, whose charm is not only expressed in subtle details - as of the traceries - but also facial expressions, diffused through the characteristic poses of their bodies as well. |
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Though the painter imaginatively recreates the same sequence from work to work, this is so without becoming monotonous since beneath the slight changes of mood, we also note a basic self composure. So that these works express the artist, inherent capacity for devotion to human themes. But of course this sweet affect, would not have been attained had he not known how to handle the glow, the intensity, the density, the lightness of colour agreements and their contrasts in the general organisation of his pictures. They show good experience in painting on easel. And this is what matters. Thus Paramjeet’s touch is lively, without running away with itself or becoming over dramatic. Finally, the geometrical play of compositions combines into open spaces the balance of cool and warm colours in counterpoint.
These canvases, in sum, reveal an eye, a hand, a mind; they announce a free and clear craftsmanship who certainly emerges in his fresh medium successfully. |
