Appetising Wall Art

Appetising — 5 museum-grade prints that set the mood. Cheriyal scroll painting comes from Cheriyal village in Telangana's Siddipet district, painted for generations by the Nakashi artist community on a signature red ground. Beyond the epics, the scrolls recorded trades and daily life — the kind of busy interior a balladeer could narrate person by person. Cheriyal scrolls come from Cheriyal village in Telangana's Siddipet district, painted for generations by the Nakashi artist community in flat colour on a red ground. The form traditionally carried epics and caste legends; contemporary Cheriyal painters have extended the same grammar to everyday Telangana life. The Onam sadya is the great vegetarian feast of Kerala's harvest festival, served on a fresh banana leaf and eaten by hand — rice with a long sequence of curries, pickles, pappadam and the sweet payasam, each in its proper place on the leaf. The picture is built in the idiom of bhitti chitra, Kerala's temple-mural tradition, which uses the panchavarna five-colour system — red, yellow, green, black and white over an ochre ground — in flat opaque fields bounded by a bold lamp-black outline, with the school's signature elongated lotus-shaped eyes.

Updated 22 Jun 2026