| Medium | : | Watercolour |
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| Height | : | 7.5 inch / 19.1 cm |
| Width | : | 11 inch / 27.9 cm |
| Surface | : | Paper |
| Style | : | Figurative Paintings, Landscapes |
| Dimension | : | W: 27.9 cm × H: 19.1 cm |
| Year | : | 2021 |
A Monsoon Melody by Paresh Maity is a serene watercolor landscape that beautifully captures the misty charm of the monsoon season. Layers of deep blue mountains, drifting clouds, and delicate touches of warm color create a tranquil and atmospheric composition that reflects the artist’s signature sensitivity to nature and light. A contemplative work that brings calm, depth, and elegance to any space.
Paresh Maity | A Monsoon Melody | Water Colour on Paper | 7.5 x 11 inches | 2021
A Monsoon Melody is a poetic watercolor landscape that captures the quiet beauty and emotional depth of the monsoon season. Through layered washes of deep blues, soft greys, and muted earth tones, Paresh Maity creates an atmospheric scene where towering mountains emerge from drifting mist and clouds. The landscape feels both vast and intimate, inviting the viewer into a moment of calm reflection.
The artist’s mastery of watercolor is evident in the fluid transitions between light and shadow, allowing the forms to appear almost dreamlike. Small bursts of warm reds and golden highlights near the foreground provide a striking contrast against the cool palette, suggesting life, movement, and the subtle vibrancy hidden within nature’s silence. The interplay of mist, water, and mountain forms evokes the rhythm of rainfall and the serenity that follows.
This work is more than a depiction of a landscape—it is an expression of mood and memory. The soft textures and ethereal atmosphere create a sense of peace, making the painting a captivating addition to any collection of contemporary Indian art. A Monsoon Melody celebrates nature’s ability to soothe, inspire, and transport the viewer into a world of quiet wonder.
Paresh Maity is a maverick artist and his adventurous, experimental personality has prodded him to explore in all mediums – drawings, watercolours, oils, mixed media, installation and sculptures, photography and filmmaking. Paresh’s uniqueness lies in his rediscovering the charm, flavor and magic of India in his paintings. He has done series of works on almost all facets and destinations of India and then across the seas to London, Venice, China and Japan. He has painted them all. Paresh Maity was born (1965) in Tamluk – a small town in West Bengal – of great antiquity with a remarkable heritage of terracotta art. While in school he made clay images of gods and goddesses and sold them to earn money for his education.
He started painting watercolours of river scenes while still at school and then then oil painting thereafter. He mastered the technique of oil painting at Government College of Art, Kolkata. His single minded determination to acquire formal training paid off when he came to Delhi to join the College of Art in New Delhi. A prolific painter, Maity has 81 solo exhibitions in 40 years of his career. He is also known for one of the longest paintings in India called The Indian Odyssey, stretching up to over 850 feet on display at T3 Terminal at Indira Gandhi Airport, New Delhi. He has held over 80 solo exhibitions all over the world and also participated in innumerable group shows in India and around the world. His extensive travels have made his work explode with forms, colours, emotions, love, harmony, joy and celebration. He is the recipient of various awards including the Award by Royal Watercolour Society London, Hall of Fame in Mumbai, Shera Bangali Award, Kolkata, Dayawati Modi Foundation Award, New Delhi, and was awarded the Padma Shri by Government of India. He lives and works in Delhi.
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