Introduction

An artist's self-journey of growth and exploration is a delicate balance between observed existing artist's own emerging personal visions. The most creative of our contemporary painters are able to fuse their inner thoughts and concepts with experiences from their daily lives and the world surrounding them. As internal and external stimuli are recorded analyzed, adapted, and changed, to suit the artist's vision, what emerges is a particular style that characterizes an individual's body of work.

Khurshid's growth has progressed through a wide range of styles for a young artist. The rhythmic expressionism of his early Lokaloy and Aquarium series, which explored man's fragile relationship with the natural and man-made world, was followed by the calligraphic form expressed in "The Most Beautiful Name" series, subsequent geometric, linear abstractions characterized the next phase of his artistic growth, culminating in his "Rhythm in Composition" series, described as a amusement park of colors and planes.

His most recent works "Image of Nature" revelation of the emerging artist's confident use of color and his increasing maturation of thematic possibilities within his paintings. The viewer can only hope that Khurshid Saleem's journey will be a long and joyous exploration of his own artistic talents and his interpretations of the world around him.

Frank Kerrigon, New York.

Khurshid Alam Saleem (born 1951), has been living at the US since the mid 1980s.While a student of the Institute of Fine Art at Dhaka University, he picked up, what is known here as academic style, but soon began a search for his own personal style. He progressed through an early fascination for rhythmic expressionism through experimentations with geometric forms and lines, to emerge with an abstract style that makes color the most important element in his composition along with contrasting or overlapping forms. Nature seems to be Saleem's focus in many of his paintings but he also seems to be interested in man's relationship with nature. Salem's paintings are an attempt to project into a plastic medium an abstract vision of joy and beauty.

S.Manzoorul lslam, Dhaka University