Untitled

Artist: Paramjit Singh
Medium: Oil on Canvas
Size: 42 × 36 in (106.7 × 91.4 cm)
Year: 2025

Paramjit Singh’s exemplifies his poetic engagement with the natural world, expressed through a language of abstraction that transforms landscape into a contemplative vision of color, texture, and atmosphere. At once vibrant and meditative, the painting conveys the sensation of a place rather than its literal form, encouraging viewers to enter into a state of reflection and quiet immersion.

The upper portion of the canvas presents a dense forest of green, its foliage rendered in layered tonalities that range from luminous emerald to deep moss. Singh’s brushwork creates an effect reminiscent of trees glimpsed through water or mirrored in a reflective surface, dissolving the boundaries between subject and perception. The forest appears alive with shifting tonal rhythms, suggesting both density and transience. Above it, the sky is not a bright expanse but a muted field of gray-white, suggestive of haze, mist, or an overcast day. This subtle treatment adds to the work’s contemplative quality, imbuing the scene with a quiet stillness.

Beneath this forested canopy, the lower half of the painting opens into a field of radiant golden yellow. This expansive plane of color is rich in texture, its rough, tactile surface contrasting with the softer blending of greens above. The golden ground anchors the composition while simultaneously evoking the fertile presence of earth, grass, or cultivated land. Singh achieves a seamless transition between the green and gold zones, allowing them to merge organically in a manner that recalls the shifting layers of memory or the dissolving edges of perception. Although abstract in execution, the painting resonates with the imagery of landscape, trees, sky, and ground, yet refuses to bind itself to literal representation. Instead, Singh privileges atmosphere, color, and mood, constructing a visual language that conveys nature’s spirit rather than its outward appearance. This emphasis on essence over detail reflects his lifelong exploration of landscape as a site of inner reflection and quiet transcendence.

In this Untitled work, Paramjit Singh captures the duality of stillness and vitality inherent in the natural world. The interplay of green and gold, dense forest and radiant field, abstraction and suggestion, invites viewers to linger within the painting’s meditative space. It is a work that resonates beyond depiction, offering instead an experience, an intimate encounter with the poetry of color, memory, and place.