Untitled

Artist: Paramjit Singh
Medium: Oil on Canvas
Year: 2021
Size: 24 x 36 inches (60.96 x 91.44 cm)

This untitled painting by Paramjit Singh presents a textured, abstracted landscape, rendered with his signature sensitivity to color, light, and form. A close-up view reveals an intricately worked surface, evoking the quiet richness of nature through subtle transitions and a layered painterly language. Singh, known for his deeply meditative and immersive landscapes, transforms the canvas into a space of both introspection and sensory engagement. The composition unfolds in a gradual transition of warm hues, beginning at the top with deep reds and rust-like oranges that suggest a fading horizon or the remnants of a glowing sky. As the viewer’s gaze moves downward, these tones soften and merge into a radiant field of golden oranges, earthy browns, and sunlit bronze. The transitions between these tones are seamless and atmospheric, lending the work a dreamlike quality that captures the passage of time or light over a field at dusk or dawn.

Throughout the surface, tiny, rhythmic strokes and marks, reminiscent of blades of grass, thickets, or undergrowth, accumulate into a dense, textured layer. These minuscule details are not merely decorative but contribute to a tactile and almost sculptural presence, inviting close observation. The granular surface shimmers subtly under light, especially where gold and bronze tones dominate, evoking the glint of sunlight skimming over foliage or dried terrain. Near the upper register of the painting, hints of greenish-teal emerge, delicate and restrained, suggesting distant vegetation, a shadowed canopy, or a symbolic horizon line. These cooler tones serve as a counterpoint to the warmth below, grounding the composition and offering a sense of spatial depth. Yet, true to Singh’s approach, the perspective remains ambiguous, more felt than fixed, more emotional than representational. 

Though abstract in its execution, the painting maintains a powerful evocation of place, drawing on nature without depicting it literally. It speaks to Singh’s lifelong engagement with the landscape not as a site to be copied, but as an inner terrain, an imagined and remembered space where emotion, memory, and perception converge. In this work, Paramjit Singh demonstrates his mastery over both material and mood, crafting a canvas that is at once vivid and contemplative, richly detailed and quietly expansive. It stands as a testament to his enduring exploration of the poetic and transformative possibilities of the landscape.