Aqeel Javed completed his MFA in Painting in 2006 at the College of Art and Design, University of the Punjab, Lahore. Javed has a natural inclination toward painting still life. In 2011, he exhibited an assortment of fifty still-life paintings in a solo exhibition at Alhamra Art Gallery, Lahore. He had a two-person exhibition at Gallery 6, Islamabad, in 2012 and has participated in several exhibitions in Lahore and Islamabad since then. Javed follows the school of Super Realism, displaying his skills while rendering his subjects under naturalistic light. His canvases sometimes have a photographic quality and ‘snapshot’ compositions. However, his palette demonstrates a subtlety that reveals the painter’s individuality...