Statement
The subject of these works comprises “Sumbal – red flower” a tree that matches its name in beauty. Lahore, the city of gardens, appears mind-blowing at the time of the bloom of these trees and the works attempt to articulate awe and admiration for this bloom. I have a nostalgic relation with Lahore’s landscape painting. My initial art training – drawing – ensued with Khalid Iqbal, a Pakistani maestro of landscape painting who painted Lahore’s landscape throughout his life. I paint the happenings in everyday life, from the pleasure that natural beauty yields to an effrontery of socio-political systems. The process results in uncanny abstraction of subject, materiality, and method. Neither it’s realism nor pure abstraction. It is a process-oriented distortion.