Warm Domestic Wall Art

Warm Domestic — 5 museum-grade prints that set the mood. Aripana — also spelled Aripan — is ritual floor painting from the Mithila region of Bihar and adjoining Nepal, traditionally executed by women known as aripana deniharis before puja, weddings, thread ceremonies, and seasonal vratas. The surface is prepared with cow-dung wash; designs are drawn freehand with fingers dipped in pithar, a wet paste of soaked and ground rice, often finished with dots of sindur vermillion. Cheriyal scrolls come from Cheriyal village in Telangana's Siddipet district, painted for generations by the Nakashi artist community — a hereditary family of painters who prepared their own khadi-cloth grounds with tamarind-seed paste and rice starch, ground mineral and vegetable pigments, and built each scroll register by register for travelling balladeer-storytellers to unroll while singing epics and caste-origin legends. This print pictures that workshop directly. Uma Maheshwara is Shiva with his consort Parvati (Uma), the divine couple at the centre of Shaiva devotion, often shown enthroned together with the bull Nandi, Shiva's vahana, at their feet. Shiva is marked by the crescent moon in his matted locks and the trident; the pairing embodies the union of the divine masculine and feminine.

Updated 22 Jun 2026