Ash Grey Wall Art

Ash Grey — 5 museum-grade prints in this palette. Kalighat Pat grew up in 19th-century Kolkata, painted by migrant patua (chitrakar) scroll-painters who settled near the Kalighat Kali temple and sold quick watercolour souvenirs to pilgrims. Working on mill-made paper with a bold single black brush outline and soft 'boneless' shaded strokes on a plain ground, they painted gods and goddesses alongside what is often called India's first modern social satire — sharp, affectionate caricatures of the colonial 'babu' and the hypocrisies of Calcutta life. Gussadi is the ceremonial dance of the Raj Gond and Kolam adivasi communities of Adilabad in northern Telangana, performed during the Dandari festival around Diwali. Dancers smear their bodies with ash, drape goat or deer skins and wear towering headdresses of peacock feathers, moving in procession to the dappu drum.

Updated 22 Jun 2026