Red Ochre Wall Art

Red Ochre — 36 museum-grade prints in this palette. 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. Jageshwar Dham is a celebrated cluster of stone temples set in a deodar forest valley near Almora, sacred to Shiva and reached on foot through the trees — a living pilgrimage in the Kumaon hills. Warli painting belongs to the Warli Adivasi community of the North Sahyadri range in Maharashtra — Dahanu, Talasari, Jawhar, Palghar, and Mokhada among its heartland centres. Traditionally women painted white rice-flour paste on red ochre cow-dung or mud-plastered hut walls during weddings and harvest rituals; geometric circles, triangles, and squares depict daily life, farming, fishing, and communal celebration without perspective or shading. Warli painting is the ritual and daily-life art of the Warli (Varli) Adivasi community of the North Sahyadri range in Maharashtra — Palghar, Thane, Dahanu, Jawhar, and adjoining districts — traditionally executed by women on interior hut walls coated with geru red earth and cow dung, using white pigment from rice paste, water, and gum applied with chewed bamboo sticks. Motifs rely on circles, triangles, and squares: circle heads and wheels, triangle torsos, square chauk fields for sacred geometry at weddings.

Updated 22 Jun 2026