Devotional Calm Wall Art

Devotional Calm — 22 museum-grade prints that set the mood. Aipan is the ritual floor- and wall-art of the Kumaon region of Uttarakhand, made traditionally by Kumaoni women with white rice-paste (biswar) drawn by fingertip onto a geru — red-ochre earth — ground. The ashtadal kamal, the eight-petal lotus, is a classic Lakshmi-yantra form drawn at Diwali: the lotus is the seat of the goddess of fortune, and the lamps and conches set between its petals are the offerings of the rite. 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. Madhubani — Mithila painting from the Madhubani district of Bihar and adjoining Nepal — traditionally adorned courtyard and interior walls for weddings, festivals, and seasonal rites, with knowledge passed matrilineally among Brahmana, Kayastha, and other community lineages. William G.

Updated 22 Jun 2026