Family Tender Wall Art

Family Tender — 3 museum-grade prints that set the mood. Kerala's southwest monsoon — mazha — arrives in June and turns the paddy belt vivid green; the banana leaf held overhead is a genuine rural reflex, the broadest free umbrella the land offers. 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. Onam is Kerala's great harvest festival, marking the annual homecoming of the mythical king Mahabali; through the ten days leading to Thiruvonam, families lay a pookalam — a circular carpet of fresh flowers, growing in rings each day — at the threshold to welcome him. 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. 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