Leaf Green Wall Art

Leaf Green — 115 museum-grade prints in this palette. Chenda melam is the percussion ensemble at the heart of Kerala's temple festivals — most famously the Thrissur Pooram — built on the chenda, a cylindrical drum played upright with sticks, supported by the elathalam cymbals and the curved kombu and kuzhal wind instruments. Here it is set inside bhitti chitra, Kerala's temple-mural tradition that flourished roughly from the 16th to 19th century and is still painted today: flat panchavarna pigments (red, yellow, green, black, white over an ochre ground), a bold lamp-black outline and the school's elongated lotus-shaped eyes. Coir — the fibre spun from coconut husk — is one of Kerala's signature crafts, centred on Alappuzha and the coastal belt, and the spinning is largely women's work done on traditional wheels in open yards. This print sets that scene inside bhitti chitra, Kerala's temple-mural tradition that flourished roughly from the 16th to 19th century and is still painted today: flat panchavarna pigments (red, yellow, green, black, white over an ochre ground), a bold lamp-black outline and the school's elongated lotus-shaped eyes. Cheriyal scrolls come from Cheriyal village in Telangana's Siddipet district, painted for generations by the Nakashi artist community. They were long narrative cloth scrolls unrolled episode by episode by travelling balladeer-storytellers — the kaki padagollu and allied story-telling castes — who sang the epics and caste-origin legends to village audiences through the night.

Updated 22 Jun 2026