A talented young artist who started attracting attention and winning laurels from his art called life itself, Ajay Samir made everyone around him situp and take notice. Ajay Samir of course started showing his works from 1992 onwards. But his real break came when he exhibited large scale drawings based on the Ex-Prime Minister, Atal Bihari Vajpeyee’s Hindi poetry at Shridharani Gallery, Tansen Marg, New Delhi recently. This talent is creating large scale drawings on most themes was recognised. The show had a great impact as the audience saw Prime Minister Vajpeyee’s poems and had an enricheming visual experience viewing Samir’s fine, motivated drawings.

Samir’s second scoring point came when he exhibited large scale drawings and water colours, based on poet-writer and film- director Gulzar’s poetry, at the capital’s premier gallery-Dhoominal with poet Gulzar performing the inaugural ceremony in the presence of guests. The show was not only a magnetic one but an instant success. Samir has not looked back thereafter (these shows were taken to Mumbai as well).

Samir has done lot of work on his native Garhwal’s landscape- a charming region by any, measure. But Samir always chose to analogue his artistic and face new challenges by choosing unorthodox themes. And an impartial observer could say that he has performed well. Those who have seen Samir working in his studio could bear witness to his dedication and devotion to his work. Working untiringly Samir has a penchant for symbolism and nature plays an important role in his imagery. One could see those looks breads, falling leaves and such other natural symbols. One could also make the floating flying bodies of his principal lyrical life- a life everybody decams of and efforts to attain.

Samir is of course conscious of the scale of the picture space, that is-known well as to how this vast space could bind itself to human drama wherein several characters and elements are brought into play, be it the temples, placed in the background of his Himalayan scapes or the chiclamption the conrty and of a small top house. Space could make or break an image if not properly handled or otherwise. Samir’s large-scale drawings.leave and create an instant impact and loom large in one’s memory.

Make those characters-poets and philosophers-living by the illusive light (often referenced by the facial glow) and making the world a more bearable experience. In fact, an many well wishes ask what the world would be like if these were not poets and philosophic feelings but the conscience of the world and humanity at large?

Samir hasn’t of courses got these charcaters and these mysteries in his space, over night. These, have evolved from his sunsitivity to art and poetry and have come to be sustained by virtue of their own strength make the themes of his early shows. “Lighting up the word” came in 2004, a visual of Hindi author Visham Sahni, for August 21 to September-i, 2004 “Romance of Himachal”, exhibiting his scapes in water colours at the Lalit Kala Akademi 13-19th April 2005. “Love” a show of drawings and water colours based on the same theme and featuring poets, philosophers, desires, and women...

A Sculpturae the eye of his audiences and then again, an enlargement of the same theme to “Love’ tranquaility and harmony”, a large show of drawing and paintings at the Ashoka Hotel lobby based on the prooferred themes Sept. 2006).

So we can soe a sustained thought process and the consequent a theme-buried imagery they holds and sustains the audience interest and there are those technicalities involved that make art a sustainable affair the anatomy, the perspective and the composition of the final image.

Those who are not sensitive to the technical aspects of the finished imagery too one can feel their impact for the eye registers these excellences automatically and we all make our judgement in favour on against a work, positive when all the prictorial elements are in harmony. Samir’s works, thanks to his dedication and sunsitivity meet the major criteria of art and thereby create the appeal they have for their audience.

Samir, while in his water colour sustained the airy quality of the medium and a fine balance between highlights and shadows, in his drawings he sustaines the dynamics of lines and their definative quality. So whether it is a brush or pen stroke, the work of the artist oozes art and beguiles his audience

Samir, like any good artist bears a burden that is best justified when creativity is given full play and moves towards a more caring, human world that would reflect he tender spirit of humanity.