Most of the art works feature such portrayals at a group show being held at Art Collector, a newly installed gallery at BNS center of Sector 7 at Uttara in the city.

Human figures, natural greenery, daily lives of busy urban and suburban communities and architectural set-ups of buildings and bridges crop up in works of Adnan Sufian, one of the six participants. Quite an intricate use of light monochromic shades including green, blue and yellow come up in Adnan's works.

Artist Rashed Kamal portrays a typical Bengal as he emphasises on the day-to-day rituals of the rural common man, nature's influence upon mankind, man-made environmental hazards, and urban heritage sites that need urgent attention for repair and restoration. 'Bright orange and yellow predominantly reign in my works, which represent the inner joys of the human mind, 'reveals a beaming Rashed. To put up a contrasting effect, he uses dark shades where the subject of space and lucidity fill the canvas.

The works of artist Sadek Ahmed also represent realistic topics of nature and human life. The simple portrayal of landscapes and old, historical sites bring out the straight-forward nature of the artist who loves to fiddle with both bright, as well dull shades.

'Dark, heavy clouds represent the grimness and irate power of Mother Nature while vivid, lively compositions depict the softness of a fresh morning in my works,' says artist Ahkmul Haque. Densely overcast skies in shades of grayish black and fluttering green leaves and broken twigs provide a rich contrast in Ahkmul's works, most of which bubble with life against the dreary presence of concrete buildings.

A realistic figure of a horse blends with the surrealistic abstraction of the human consciousness in the pen drawings of artist Zakir-Us-Salam. The young talent tries to depict a kind of expressionism through the symbolic looks of eyes whilst the bold, robust semi-abstract figure of the horse represent speed and strength besides other emotional qualities of worldly creations. Circular patterns of deep black etched streaks around the main subject further boost the vigor and agility of the running horse in a semi-realistic surrounding.

A completely different theme appears in the mixed media works of artist Iftakhar Khan whose series Revolution 1 to 4 depict a dark, frozen surrealistic world of space and time, the gradual development of the human civilisation and a much deserved peaceful and serene realistic world. Presence of circular clocks represent the ever flowing time span of the cosmic dimension from which the human mind constantly fantasises to break free yet fails only to return within the looping circle of the chaotic reality.

The exhibition remains open from 10 a.m. to 8 p.m. daily till July 16.