Sea Green Wall Art

Sea Green — 2 museum-grade prints in this palette. The Cheena vala — the shore-operated cantilever lift nets at Fort Kochi — are among Kerala's most recognised sights, by tradition linked to Chinese traders and the Malabar coast's long maritime contact. This print sets them inside bhitti chitra, Kerala's temple-mural tradition that flourished roughly from the 16th to 19th century and is still painted today: flat panchavarna pigments (red, yellow, green, black, white over an ochre ground), a bold lamp-black outline and the school's elongated lotus-shaped eyes. Pattachitra is the cloth-painting tradition of Odisha, centred on the chitrakar families of Raghurajpur near Puri, worked in five mineral colours on patta with crisp lamp-black contour and profile figures. Odisha has a long coastline along the Bay of Bengal, and fishing harbours such as those near Paradip and Puri are central to coastal livelihoods, with women playing a major role in sorting and selling the catch.

Updated 22 Jun 2026