Parimal Vaghela

I paint what most people walk past without seeing.A crumpled newspaper. A ceramic bowl. A marigold in a market. A rack in an old kitchen. These are my subjects — the overlooked, the everyday, the quietly extraordinary. I render them in oil on canvas with hyperrealistic precision, not to replicate a photograph, but to force a moment of attention. To say: look. Really look.My paintings carry no philosophy and no message. They are, in my own words, 'visual excitement created by form, composition, and the implication of light and shade.' I want the person standing before my work to feel an emotional attachment — not to understand it, but to feel it.I have painted since childhood. I am self-taught. I have been called a civil engineer who paints — I prefer to think of myself as a painter who also happens to build things.

Self-Taught Artist (1970 – Present), Gujarat & Ahmedabad, India
Civil Engineering — Government Politechnic, Porbandar, Gujarat, India
Extensive independent study of Old Masters: Dutch Golden Age still life painters, Indian miniature painting tradition, Photorealist movement (Chuck Close, Richard Estes)

Solo Exhibitions
Jehangir Art Gallery — 1998, 2003, 2010
Nehru Centre Art Gallery — 1999
Pradarshak Art Gallery — 1997, 2001, 2003
Leela Art Gallery — 2002
Artquest Gallery — 2007
Mahalsa Art Gallery — 1998
Art Entrance Gallery — 2012
Kala Academy — 2017
Mantra Art Gallery — 2013
Gujarat Lalit Kala Academy Gallery — 1992, 2018
Dr. S.P. Mukerji Art Gallery — 1992

Group Exhibitions
OXO Tower Wharf Gallery — 2024 (Artists & Illustrators Magazine)
Art Gate Gallery — 2013
Vinnyasa Premier Art Gallery — 2016
Cymroza Art Gallery — 2018, 2019
RMZ Foundation Art Gallery — 2020
Museum of Goa — 2020
Indian Institute of Technology Kanpur — Guest Artist, 2022