initial fascination with time and space provides a vehicle for combining the varied character traits in my work, reflecting my personality, my past experiences and fond memories,” says printmaker Imran Ahmed. “Dots, lines and tones are vigorously scratched into the metal plate to construct images from the conscious and the subconscious,” he adds. He says that the pleasure of mark-making with visceral strength and energy leaves him with abstractions, narrating long stories with only a stroke, and at the same time a small word illustrated with thousands of lines through the technique of dry point. “My later work, executed in lithographs and line etchings, carry the same energy, but are distilled into more symbolic motifs,” he adds.
He explains that those symbols are the expression of recurring memories of being away from home and loved ones. Ahmed received his Bachelors in Fine Arts degree, majoring in Printmaking, from the National College of Arts. He has also taught Printmaking at the Beaconhouse National University and the Oriental College of Arts. He has been a part of group exhibitions at home in Lahore and Islamabad, as well as in Wales, Germany and Finland. His artworks are a part of private collections across Pakistan, as well as in India, Germany and America. Photos courtesy VASL Art
Constructing images from the conscious and the subconscious
