Balanced Wall Art

Balanced — 21 museum-grade prints that set the mood. Aipan is the ritual floor- and wall-art of the Kumaon region of Uttarakhand, drawn traditionally by Kumaoni women with white rice-paste (biswar) on a geru (red-ochre) earth ground. The Janeu, or Upanayana, is the sacred-thread rite of passage: a child is seated on a freshly drawn chowki and invested with the yajnopavita thread worn across the shoulder, with conch shells sounded during the ceremony. Gond painting comes from the Gond Adivasi communities of central India, with its best-known school formed by the Pradhan Gond of Patangarh and the wider Dindori region of Madhya Pradesh. The contemporary form is largely the legacy of Jangarh Singh Shyam (1962–2001), whose line-and-in-fill manner — every form bounded by a bold outline, then filled with rows of dots, dashes, commas and scales — became known as Jangarh Kalam and was carried on by his family and students. The lotus tank (kamal-talai) and the peacock are the great secular motifs of Nathdwara pichwai — the painted cloth (pichhwai, literally 'that which hangs at the back') hung behind the Shrinathji deity to set the seasonal scene. Lotus-pond cloths come out in the monsoon and autumn months, echoing the temple's own bloom; peacocks signal the rains.

Updated 22 Jun 2026