Dressing Area Wall Art

Dressing Area — 4 museum-grade prints sized and toned for the room. Kalighat Pat grew up in 19th-century Kolkata, painted by patua (chitrakar) scroll-painters who settled near the Kalighat Kali temple and sold quick watercolours to pilgrims. Alongside gods and goddesses they produced what is often called India's first modern social satire — sharp, affectionate caricatures of the salesmen, shoppers and everyday types of Calcutta's markets. Godna — ritual tattoo art — is historically practised by Dalit Dusadh women in the Mithila region, distinct from Brahmin-dominated Bharni and Kohbar wall traditions that centre Hindu epics and wedding chamber symbolism. Motifs derive from skin: arm bands, leg grids, naga protection coils, lotus and floral registers, and nature guardians — transferred to paper and cow-dung-washed ground from the 1970s onward through artists such as Chano Devi and encouragement from anthropologist Erika Moser in villages including Jitwarpur.

Updated 22 Jun 2026