Guest Bedroom Wall Art

Guest Bedroom — 8 museum-grade prints sized and toned for the room. Khovar is the marriage wall art of Hazaribagh district, Jharkhand, combed by women of tribal and Kurmi communities onto the bridal chamber before a wedding, using a sgraffito technique — wet white kaolin slip over a dark base coat, combed and scratched away with a broken comb so the dark ground reads as line. Paired fish are a classic Khovar fertility motif, promising plenty and increase to the new household, alongside lotus and peacocks. Bharni — literally "to fill" — is the Mithila colour-flood style historically associated with Brahmin women painters in villages such as Jitwarpur, Ranti, and Rasidpur; bold black outlines enclose vermillion, turmeric, and ochre fills on wedding walls and, after the 1960s Bihar drought commercialisation, on handmade paper. Harvest scenes belong to the oldest Mithila subject matter: women gathering grain, chaurchan and kojagara festival panels, and Anaj ka Aashirwad motifs that celebrate agrarian labour and seasonal reward — Ambika Devi and other contemporary masters still paint harvest women in Bharni fill for farmhouse and cultural interiors. Bharni — "to fill" — is the Mithila colour-flood style historically associated with Brahmin women painters in Jitwarpur, Ranti, and Rasidpur; bold lampblack outlines enclose vermillion, turmeric, and palash orange fills on wedding walls and, after drought-relief paper programmes in the 1960s–70s, on handmade sheets for wider commerce. Contemporary Mithila artists have extended Bharni grammar to daily-life subjects — cycles, autos, trains, smartphones — while keeping horror vacui fill rules and double-outline discipline.

Updated 22 Jun 2026