Parag's elegant landscapes capture with a touch of nostalgia, the spirit and singular ‘mood' of a moment, a region, a season in nature, in an ambience that is distinctively Indian.

His compositions emanate an almost spiritual – sometimes elegiac – grace, a blurring of present perception into timelessness. Slim lines sparingly used, curve, slant and meander across his scenery, detailing background, delineating bare form and simulating perspective in evocative consonance, within a precise totality of design. Images, and tonal variations of light and shade as they slide over a landscape in a particular season or time of day, are built up with smudged applications of shaded color, used with restraint. Vivid hues if any are minimal accents that heighten the total mood.

His “imagery is personal and reflects the quest of the artist for a spiritual significance to offset the often unsettling details of modern life.” His landscapes thus crystallize into a search of sorts, uncovering hidden depths in ordinary objects and acquiring in the process an elemental – almost metaphysical dimension – that broadens and enriches their total perceptual reality.

‘The Coming Storm' perfectly epitomizes Parag's characteristic mood. Hot white light reflects off an Indian beach as fishermen draw their boats across the sand, under the gathering haze of ominous storm clouds. The only spot of color – a slash of red across a boat hull – heightens the starkness of the scene; while the muted browns, ochres and greens of a storm tossed tree, a hut and a shaded bank soften it. Impressionistic but never fragile, the components of the wind-blurred landscape merge in Parag's typical style, into a total design of distant, unending vistas; and finally into a haunting emotion ‘recollected in tranquility'.

PA_A003 `Gathering Storm` acrylic on canvas 27" X 35"   email us for price	PA_W001 `The Road 1` water colour 27" X 35"   email us for price	PA_W002 `The Road 2` water colour 27" X 35"   email us for price
PAN057 `Untilted` acrylic on canvas 31" X 23"   email us for price	PAN328 `Untilted` acrylic on paper 26" X 21"   email us for price	PAN5974 `Varanasi` acrylic on canvas 30" X 40"   email us for price