ISLAMABAD, Nov 28: Suspended in Patterns -an exhibition displaying modern miniature opened at the Satrang Gallery on Thursday.

The exhibition is the effort of six artists who have showcased the elements of miniature painting from its rigorous discipline to narrative function.

Modern miniature continues to explore dynamic genre and has continued significance in contemporary art practice.

All the participating artists are graduates of National Collage of Arts.

They have exhibited in both national and international exhibitions.

Some are fresh graduates, while others are educators and practicing artists.

Najma Pirzada, a visitor to the show, appreciated the strong symbols of miniature and related to the col-ours.

`It`s impressive how young artists are making social and political statements through visual arts,` she said.

The paintings were priced between Rs20,000 and Rs70,000.

The artists displayed patterns as a narration of their surroundings and described the surroundings -what they saw, what they heard and how they reacted.

In this way, they were able to unfold patterns to the audience from the artists` point of view.

Beenish Khalid drives visitors through her journey of a decorative life of house-hold memories. She depicts the home where people build nests only to move on to a new place out of the structure.

Drawing a maze of thoughts and reality, Maimoona Riaz leads art lovers to the point of their synthesis and the enormity of behaviouralchange.

Mehrbano Khattak involved viewers in an experience of multiple styles of visual patterns while Nadia Rahat fascinated them with her visual representation of the surroundings which people tend to ignore.

Saima Beenish awed viewers with the high quality usage of traditional miniature painting techniques and the images depicted a compelling notion to enhance various stages of their personal and collective growth.

Nadia Bangish took visitors to an exploration of relations from an idea to simplification.

`Altogether, the show invites us to traverse up through pattern, and its harmony is an experience with aesthetic quality,` the curator of the show Mehrbano Khattak claimed.

The exhibition will continue for a month.