Intimate Wall Art

Intimate — 12 museum-grade prints that set the mood. Kalighat Pat grew up in 19th-century Kolkata, painted by patua (chitrakar) scroll-painters who settled near the Kalighat Kali temple and sold quick watercolours to pilgrims. Alongside gods and goddesses they painted the everyday women of Calcutta — at their toilette, with mirror or hookah — in the same economical, sensuous line, which is why the form is often called India's first modern popular art. 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 pichhora is the Kumaoni ceremonial veil-cloth — traditionally an ochre or yellow ground scattered with sun, swastika, conch, and bell motifs — worn by women at weddings and important rites; it shares its vocabulary with Aipan itself. Cheriyal scroll painting comes from Cheriyal village in Telangana's Siddipet district, painted for generations by the Nakashi artist community on a signature red ground. Beyond the epics, the scrolls recorded trades, markets and daily devotional life.

Updated 22 Jun 2026