Rafiqun Nabi has painted the meeting of land and sky, with boats anchored in the forefront. The colours used are soft grey, touched with brown, with a dark indigo sky. Sketches include human figures.

Qayyum Chowdhury's watercolour brings in a landscape with motifs of his own which he has drawn from nature. Trees and leaves decorate the painting with gentle sweeps of greens, blues and beige. Monirul Islam has brought in landscape too. The watercolour is abstract, with broken forms and lines. One can detect, however, human forms and boats in the forefront in the mass of grey with a touch of blue and red.

Jamal Ahmed's image of a Buriganga jetty has brought in the sunset. The sky is reddish and the water is grey, while the boats and humans are seen as black strokes. The watercolour by Hamiduzzaman Khan also brings in a dramatic river scene, with minimal lines and strokes. Mahmudul Haque's work is also a product of inspiration from nature. Rectangles and triangles of all sizes fill the canvas. The texture work in black, turquoise, green and blue is amazing.

Samarjit Roy Chowdhury's painting highlights his typical motifs of festive flags and birds in the sky. This is in jet-black cubic forms and turquoise blue -- splashed with bright yellow, red and pink. Farida Zaman's painting presents two young fisher-women on a boat. A bright yellow sky encases the boat with its catch of fish. The women's faces are suggestions of yellow while their limbs are long and spindly.

Shishir Bhattacharjee's satire delineates social criticism in the form of an obese, bald man shooting balloons at a fair. Butterflies, dragonflies, birds, dogs and children are parts of it. Mohammed Eunus' semi-abstract has texture work in grey and black contrasted with startling sunflower yellow. Abdus Shakoor Shah's ornate work brings in peacocks, lizards, flowers and black lettering of poetry.

Ahmed Nazir's cityscape introduces lines of rickshaw wheels whizzing by, with the hood at one end decorated in vivid colours. The human forms are seen as large shadows in the background, matching the overwhelming multi-storeyed buildings lining the streets. The watercolour by Sheikh Afzal has trees in front, with a pale oyster coloured sky and hills in the background. Although done in black and grey, the subject is bursting with buoyancy.

Biren Shome's parrot-seller has both impressionistic and cubic elements in it, with its splashes of reds, greens and greys. Nisar Hussain's figures appear like dark, dancing devils. Ranjit Das is inspired by girls who sell seashell necklaces on the beach. Nasreen Begum's creation contains multi-coloured, scattered autumn leaves, with the backdrop of a rich, silk indigo cloth. The beauty of indigenous women and their jewellery is amply presented in Kanak Chanpa Chakma's painting in yellow and indigo.

With a selection of works by 28 prominent artists, the fair is worth a visit.