Children Room Wall Art

Children Room — 10 museum-grade prints sized and toned for the room. Pattachitra is the cloth-scroll painting tradition of Odisha, tied to the Jagannath temple at Puri and the chitrakar families of Raghurajpur, painted on patta — cotton stiffened with tamarind-seed paste and chalk — in five mineral colours: conch-white (sankha), lamp-black (kalia), haritala yellow, hingula red and geru brick-orange. Krishna leela — the childhood and youth of Krishna — is one of the tradition's central themes, alongside the Jagannath triad and the Gita Govinda; the butter-thief episode is among its best-loved scenes. Pattachitra is the cloth-painting tradition of Odisha, tied to the Jagannath temple at Puri and the chitrakar families of Raghurajpur, painted on patta (cotton treated with tamarind-seed paste and chalk) in five mineral colours — conch-white, lamp-black, haritala yellow, hingula red and geru brick-orange. The Odisha coast — Gahirmatha and the Rushikulya river mouth — hosts the arribada, the synchronised mass nesting of olive ridley sea turtles, among the largest such events in the world; it is now closely guarded by the forest department. 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 horse is Pithora's mount for the gods; the family motorcycle, the village bus and the tractor are the everyday transport of the same villages today, and contemporary Pithora artists fold such modern life into the wall's flat folk line.

Updated 22 Jun 2026