ISLAMABAD: The works of Shahid Jalal entitled the Pool Garden Series will be exhibited at the Tanzara Art Gallery from March 11 to 17th. The twenty-two paintings, which will be on display, depict the half-a-century old pool garden of Tahira Mazhar Ali Khan in Raiwind near Lahore, which of late got political importance for other reasons. Each painting captures various scenes of the same garden from different angles. The paintings are like different pieces of the same puzzle that work together magically, however each one possesses its own distinct beauty. The exhibits are oil paintings created on fairly large canvases. Shahid Jalal, a renowned artist from Lahore has exhibited in many countries and was awarded the Pride of Performance in the field of painting by the Government of Pakistan in 1994. He has been creating paintings put in this display for the last three years. The paintings will be auctioned for the Citizens Foundation as a fund-raiser and the proceeds will be used to benefit the charity schools set up by the Foundation. The paintings assimilate natural scenes with such splendour and skill that works come to life like three-dimensional objects. The paintings show vibrant colours beautifully but meticulously merged together to depict the landscapes as naturally as possible. Green colour is dominant in the creations because of the trees which can be seen standing proudly by the pool-side, with inter-woven creepers ascending up their trunks; and shrubs with their branches drooping over the pool, their reflections adding a greenish tinge to the pool-water. Different shades of yellow and red are shaped with dots and dashes to create meaningful images of flowers among the plants. One of the paintings shows a Bougainvillea creeper peeking at its reflection in the water, another shows a monument surrounded by dense undergrowth, while a different scene shows the view of the shrubbery in the lawn as seen through the large windows of the house. One cannot miss presence of bulbous amaryllis in red and orange. Same is the case with arucaria and date-palm. The self-contained paintings speak of the skillfully mastered brush strokes by which the creator gives a sincere portrayal of the beauty of nature and this universe. The different paintings seem like small parts of a whole. One may find a mystic link between parts and the whole in the creations which has been used for a noble cause.