Wild Wall Art

Wild — 4 museum-grade prints that set the mood. Pithora is the ritual wall-painting tradition of the Rathwa, Bhil and Bhilala Adivasi communities of Chhota Udepur in eastern Gujarat (and the adjoining belt of Madhya Pradesh and Rajasthan). The wall is vowed to Babo Pithoro and painted on the inner wall of the home as thanksgiving or to fulfil a wish; only the Lakhara — the priest-painter, also called the Gor — may execute the sacred wall, working to the chants of the badva. The Kotah and Bundi ateliers of southeastern Rajasthan share a school and are jointly celebrated for hunting scenes — dramatic shikar chases through dense, lovingly painted jungle, a genre the Kotah workshops in particular made their signature. The royal tiger hunt was both a sport and a display of princely prowess. DESIGN BRIEF: the brief was to remember the forest hunt, not stage a kill, so the centre gives the deer their leap — slender bodies mid-stride, branching antlers — with the bowmen's bent bows trained after them across the band and small trees standing between, the tension held rather than resolved. We kept the deer distinct and well-spaced against the breathing warm-maroon ground, holding the fill to medium with a bold open fish-net frame rather than a merged mesh, so animals and archers never melt together.

Updated 22 Jun 2026