PATIALA: Soothing like a garden in deserts, bright like sand of Rajasthan, soft like one's heart, desires as in everybody's mind and hard work which one can not imagine. These are the only words which can depict the work done by 30 expert hands of Rajasthan. The rare art pieces with fragrance of Rajasthan are first time in city at Punjabi Varsity.

This is also first time in North India that students of fine arts are learning Rajasthani miniature painting from artistes themselves. The Rajasthani miniature painting uprose, about 150 years back. As there was no media to describe and preserve the living style maintained by the emperors. So it was the duty of painters to portray the wealthiness, generosity and views of rulers on canvas.
        
One can wonder about the imagination of the painters as a painter imagines Lord Shiva in deserts, whereas another describes the inner desires of women through her pleasant and horrible dreams. Most of the paintings are themed on Love of Radha-Krishan. The exhibition is rendering the real flavor of Rajasthan through showing its architecture, status of kings and happiness of their people.
       
Interestingly, generation gap has not interfered with levels of imagination. The senior most artiste Kripal Singh Shekhawat is ninety- four and the junior most artiste Lokesh Sharma is twenty six year old. All the artistes are from different age groups but having equally fabulous skills
        
There are amazing portraits by Dwarka Prasad Sharma, P.N. Choyal, Surjit Kaur Choyal and Samdar Singh Sagar. Sagar has given a peppy look to the monument in Ajanta caves and miniature art makes it appear like real stone. The exhibition has been arranged in collaboration with Jawahar Kala Kendra of Rajasthan.
The paintings placed in exhibition are preserved art pieces of artistes as some of them were prepared in eightees and ninetees. Students are also learning their abstract style and another ten paintings placed here are creation of students of fine arts in miniature style. That’s why the exhibition has been given the title "Tradition Continues".
         
These paintings are prepared with hard work of months, said students of fine arts. The sophisticated work with brush is enough to create enthusiasm among viewer's mind to ask the painter that how he prepared it.