Saqib paintings are thinking pieces and Saqib remains more a cerebral painter than merely an artist of skill and craft. His metaphysical aura indicates his search for the unanswered questions and their inadequate answers. His brush is dipped deep into the complexities of philosophy. His struggle as a young man, is to search for the meaning behind meaning. For him the visual inner context is more important then it’s visual reference. He has already mastered his craft but he is not been able to find the meaning of his being. That keeps him probing the inner darkness. This is a kind of soul search. He suffers in his paintings the agony of a poignant pain. Perhaps, he will have to walk many more miles to discover himself. It’s a lonely journey.
The key element of Saqib’s work is his strong compositions. and management of light which he handles with subtle skill.
He is questioning, probing, discussing. Problems are analyzed, issues are discussed giving a strange version where objective and subjective sensibilities mingle in an attempt to reach an answer. Yet the answer is not easy to grasp. He has used female figures to project the trauma of human existence highlighting surrealistic contradictions. He divides his canvases in two or more segments leaving a bigger chunk as against the elongated strip, a difficult exercise to maintain balance. Most of his paintings present a foggy scenario and an uncertainty prevails yet some are property lighted of hope perhaps.