Earthy Grounded Wall Art

Earthy Grounded — 24 museum-grade prints that set the mood. Sohrai is a harvest-season wall art of Hazaribagh district, Jharkhand, painted by women of tribal and Kurmi communities to welcome cattle home after the rice harvest, around Diwali. Lac — the resin secreted by insects on plateau trees — is a forest produce of the region, softened over a flame and rolled into the bright red bangles worn at weddings and festivals. Warli art belongs to the Warli Adivasi community of the North Sahyadri range in Maharashtra — villages across Dahanu, Talasari, Jawhar, Palghar, Mokhada, and Vikramgad where rice-paste white pigment on geru-red ochre mud walls has documented daily life for centuries. Traditionally painted by women on hut plaster coated with cow dung and red earth, scenes mark harvests, marriages, and seasonal cycles without preliminary tracing — design flows directly from bamboo-stick brush to wall.

Updated 22 Jun 2026