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Jamil Naqsh (1939)

Pakistan’s leading artist, the contemporary master, Jamil Naqsh, was a boy when he left his home in Kairana, on the banks of the river Jumna to live in Pakistan, he is an independent spirit, with deeply examined conclusions to life and art.
In his early teens he travelled alone through Chittagong, Calcutta and Colombo, a kaleidoscope of impressions and a great respect for the art traditions of the past was a legacy of the young man’s journey, factors that were to influence his life, his work and his thinking. As an art student in 1953, he absorbed the aesthetics of modern art but determined to make a thorough study of the various schools of traditional miniature paintings. Thus he sacrificed the ease of an art student’s life to become a disciple of master miniaturist Mohammed Sharif, and learnt to sit for long hours at his work. Obsessed with the idea of ‘line’, the young artist sought an ethos that addressed his work in the decades to follow.
Naqsh paints the people he loves, intimate thoughts and convictions. He began to paint pigeons in the early 1960's. There were many implications in his choice of subject; childhood memories of pigeons strutting through the courtyard of his ancestral home and flying freely through the open windows. Years later these recollections were to be diffused into a symbol of domestic harmony. Then came the painted pigeons of the miniature.