Farmhouse Wall Wall Art

Farmhouse Wall — 9 museum-grade prints sized and toned for the room. Sohrai is a harvest-season wall art of Hazaribagh district, Jharkhand, painted by women of tribal and Kurmi communities in natural earth pigments — manganese black, hematite red, kaolin white and ochre yellow — on a daubed mud wall to welcome cattle home after the rice harvest, around Diwali. The festival is rooted in exactly this paddy-and-millet reaping: the cutting, binding and gathering of the grain that the season is built around. Saura (also Sora or Saora) is one of the oldest Adivasi communities of southern Odisha; the Lanjia Saura sub-group of the Rayagada and Gajapati hills are known for their ritual wall paintings, called ikon or idital, painted by a kuranmaran (shaman-priest) in white rice paste on the deep-maroon inner wall of a house to honour deities and ancestors. Hill and shifting cultivation — the seasonal cycle of clearing, ploughing, sowing and harvesting on sloped fields — is a long-standing Saura livelihood, and field scenes recur across Saura panels alongside ritual subjects.

Updated 22 Jun 2026