Poised Wall Art

Poised — 3 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. They were long narrative cloth scrolls unrolled episode by episode by travelling balladeer-storytellers — the kaki padagollu and allied story-telling castes — who sang the epics and caste-origin legends to village audiences through the night. The blackbuck (krishna-mriga, the 'dark antelope') was the most prized game of the Rajasthan deserts and a recurring subject in Marwar painting, where wildlife studies rendered animals in crisp flat profile against intense ochre and saffron ground. This treatment follows the Marwar school centred on Jodhpur, known within the Rajput miniature umbrella for desert-court intensity and a jewel-bright palette. Mewar, ruled from Udaipur, is the Rajput school of flat saturated grounds and frontal terrace-pavilion scenes — princes watching dance and music on palace terraces by the lake. This contemporary fusion borrows that exact performance grammar for a kathak recital, the north-Indian classical dance of spins, footwork and storytelling that courts and havelis have hosted for centuries.

Updated 22 Jun 2026