KOHAT: The Liaqat Ali Art Academy held a three-day exhibition here and donated 25 oil paintings to Nishtar Special Education Centre, bringing smiles on the faces of differently-abled children.

The gallery owner, Liaqat Ali Khan said students worked on the paintings in a unique synthetic enamel style with minimum use of brush.

He said through such paintings, the academy had attempted to end the suffocating environment in the society due to high inflation, depression and tension.

Liaqat Ali said the young artists used oil, watercolour and pencil work in making the paintings.

He claimed to have also prepared the world’s biggest portrait of Quaid-i-Azam, but it had been lying with the Capital Development Authority, Islamabad, for last 23 years. He regretted that CDA couldn’t find a suitable place to fix the portrait.

Similarly, he said he had painted a 512-square-meter portrait of UAE founding father and then ruler late Sheikh Zayed Bin Sultan Al-Nahyan, which was erected at the Marina Mall Square in Dubai.

Over 50 other paintings were also exhibited for the visitors, who bought them to encourage the young artists.

Artists from Peshawar and local drawing lovers, including doctors, educationists, writers, student painters and young children visited the art gallery.

The visitors were stunned by the work of young artists, Nimra Shah and Aisha.

Published in Dawn, October 8th, 2023