Here is where he had the glimpse of the works of the Western masters such as Rembrandt, Turner, Constable, Winslow Homer to name a few at the Victoria Memorial Hall which he used to visit. Seeing their works sparked in him the desire to be like them; he wanted to be known as a hardworking artist. In awe of Rembrandt’s way of using light, he tried to capture his method and simultaneously admired the impressionists, the cubist phase of Picasso but considered Rembrandt, Homer and Turner to be his favorites. He traveled all over India, and anywhere he went, he painted nature but felt that his understanding of it was never enough. At the onset of the 90s, figures started to appear in his works as opposed to the traditional landscapes from his early years. Figures of men and women, animals and birds became part of his watercolour, a medium which he had come to master. Paresh despised the harsh side of life which reflected in his paintings which are all soft and soothing. Like many other artists of India, Paresh had a humble beginning. His first work of three watercolours was sold for Rs 75 each to Gallery Chemould in Kolkata when he was 18 years old. Paresh is an instinctive master of watercolour, a notoriously difficult medium and has the ability to interpret light in terms of pure colors. It is hard to classify his work within any particular tradition of watercolour painting. He has progressed from an early realism to a more moody expressionistic and atmospheric style. What has become of paramount importance to Paresh is to ‘capture the moment’ . He chooses to work directly from nature – on the spot. “If you paint directly from nature, what you have is a direct transformation”, he says. ‘You can capture the moment, the emotion, the feeling, the light.”