Convivial Wall Art

Convivial — 6 museum-grade prints that set the mood. 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. Pattachitra is the cloth-painting tradition of Odisha, tied to the Jagannath temple at Puri and the chitrakar families of Raghurajpur, painted on patta (cotton treated with tamarind-seed paste and chalk) in five mineral colours — conch-white, lamp-black, haritala yellow, hingula red and geru brick-orange. The roadside cha-dukan is a fixture of every Odisha town — a place to read the paper, settle arguments and pass an evening over a glass of strong sweet tea poured from a height. Saura (also Sora or Saora) is one of the oldest Adivasi communities of southern Odisha; the Lanjia Saura sub-group of the Rayagada and Gajapati hills take their name from the lanjia, the rear hair-knot worn by the men, traditionally finished with a comb. They are known for their ritual wall paintings, called ikon or idital, painted by a kuranmaran (shaman-priest) in white rice paste on the deep-maroon inner wall of a house to honour deities and ancestors — for protection, fertility, healing, or remembrance.

Updated 22 Jun 2026