Family Room Wall Art

Family Room — 34 museum-grade prints sized and toned for the room. Aipan is the ritual floor- and wall-art of the Kumaon region of Uttarakhand, drawn traditionally by Kumaoni women with white rice-paste (biswar) on a geru (red-ochre) earth ground. Diwali is the festival of lights, when courtyards are swept and lit with diyas, children play with sparklers (phuljhadi), and the lotus, lit lamp, and swastika carry the auspicious welcome of the season. Onam is Kerala's great harvest festival, marking the annual homecoming of the mythical king Mahabali; through the ten days leading to Thiruvonam, families lay a pookalam — a circular carpet of fresh flowers, growing in rings each day — at the threshold to welcome him. The picture is built in the idiom of bhitti chitra, Kerala's temple-mural tradition, which uses the panchavarna five-colour system — red, yellow, green, black and white over an ochre ground — in flat opaque fields bounded by a bold lamp-black outline, with the school's signature elongated lotus-shaped eyes. Gond painting comes from the Gond Adivasi communities of central India, with its best-known school formed by the Pradhan Gond of Patangarh and the wider Dindori region of Madhya Pradesh. The contemporary form is largely the legacy of Jangarh Singh Shyam (1962–2001), whose line-and-in-fill manner — every form bounded by a bold outline, then filled with rows of dots, dashes, commas and scales — became known as Jangarh Kalam and was carried on by his family and students.

Updated 22 Jun 2026