Qureshi's Grove

The beautiful landscape view of golf course and lake in the grounds of The Grove Hotel, Spa and Sports Centre in Watford, Hertfordshire. A couple of golfers can be seen in the golf course on the lower left side of the painting..The time was just before the fall and the trees are gradually losing their leaves..

Food Street, Lahore

The night life scene in Lahore's food street is fascinating and I have tried to capture it a number of times, this offering done with more rapid brush strokes and completed in a couple of hours.

Calligraphy

Quranic Calligraphy, written on four separate canvases, to be read as one.

Tent Peggers: Calm Before the Storm

Tent-pegging is an old equestrian sport, which started out when horsemen of an attacking army will send its best men to remove the pegs of the enemy's tents while they're sleeping.Today, tent pegging is practised around the world, but is especially popular in Australia, India, Israel, Oman, Pakistan, South Africa, and the United Kingdom. The Olympic Council of Asia included tent pegging as an official sport in 1982, and the International Federation for Equestrian Sports recognised it as an official equestrian discipline in 2004. From the results of the 2008 International Tent Pegging Championships, the world's three leading national teams are currently Canada, India, and Oman.

Qureshi's High...

The first painting by J. M. W. Turner shows the High (High Street, Oxford) in 1809–10, with University College on the left, the Warden’s house of All Souls College on the right, and Carfax in the distance.
On the left (beyond the boys picking up spilt oranges) are workmen pulling down Deep Hall, where the scientist Robert Boyle lived between 1655 and 1668: a plaque on the western side of University College marks the site. The original painting was commissioned by James Wyatt, with a view to having it engraved so that he could sell it as a print at his shop at 115 High Street. The original painting is now part of the Loyd Collection and is on long-term loan to the Ashmolean Museum.

The second painting is same spot where Turner made his painting, 200 years later. If you look at the right side of the painting you can see that Turner straightened and widened the High Street to allow for a longer view. The tree on the right side of the scene is smaller but is pushed on the right side in Turner's painting due to straightening of the curve. The curve outside the All Souls College is actually sharper as accurately shown in my painting.

Tent Pegger

Tent Pegger storming towards the peg to pick it up with his spear.

Camel Ride

A camel ride on Clifton Beach, Karachi, Pakistan.