Sociable Wall Art

Sociable — 4 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 in flat colour on a red ground. The form traditionally carried epics and caste legends; contemporary Cheriyal painters have extended the same grammar to everyday Telangana life. The char-bagh — a garden quartered by paths and water channels around a central tank or fountain — was the favoured plan of the Amber and Jaipur ateliers, who painted princes and companions in formal pleasure-gardens of clipped beds, kiosks and running water. This contemporary fusion borrows that exact garden-plan grammar for a modern municipal botanical garden, the cool-morning park where a whole city walks. Mewar, ruled from Udaipur, is the bold Rajput school of flat saturated grounds and frontal terrace-pavilion scenes — princes and companions seated on palace rooftops at evening, the town spread below. This contemporary fusion borrows that exact terrace-evening grammar for a rooftop chai, the daily ritual of stepping up to the roof at dusk for tea and company.

Updated 22 Jun 2026