Through his landscapes and cityscapes Paramesh Paul touching the core of deeper realty tries to expound a spiritual sensibility. Spirituality bordering round traditional religious feelings is the essence of his art. In that sense his paintings have a greater purpose. Through his works he analyses and investigates life, looks deeper into the relation of people with nature, with religious emotion and how ordinary people transcend themselves from the bondage of day to day mundane existence and project themselves towards a higher spiritual ideal. For this purpose Paramesh very often takes up the religious centers of the country as his subject. He is greatly in love with Benaras. Haridwar, Hrishikesh and other religious places also appear very often in his paintings. He has also a predilection for looking at the life around river. Water appears as a dominant theme in his painting, specially the river Ganges. This particular river is greatly associated with the religious and spiritual sentiments of the people of India. Through this river flows the tradition of the country from the ancient time to the present. The association of the people with this river since the time immemorial is something of devotion, awe and ovation through which they can surpass the burden of earthly existence towards a spiritual feeling. This is the reason for which the celebrated artists from our country and abroad have always felt a great zeal to paint Benaras and the river ‘Ganga’ associated with it.

But he is never limited within Benaras and religious sites only. He paints with equal zeal and interest the city of Kolkata, Delhi and Mumbai. Through these cityscapes also he enters deeper into the life and the various cults of the people. The dense population, the dingy environs of these business oriented towns, where streets are encroached by the business community, where traffic jams are daily routine, where people always gets themselves accustomed to the rush, dirt and lack of adequate space and project this spatial narrowness in their day to day living, appear as the content of his paintings, which in turn determines his form.

– Excerpt from Spirituality Extracted Out of the Void of Life – Paintings of Paramesh Paul

(Write up by Mrinal Ghosh)