Abundant Calm Wall Art

Abundant Calm — 3 museum-grade prints that set the mood. Gajalakshmi — Lakshmi flanked by elephants who anoint her with water from raised pots — is one of the most auspicious forms of the goddess of fortune and abundance, an ancient motif across Indian temple art. Here she is painted in bhitti chitra, Kerala's temple-mural tradition that flourished roughly from the 16th to 19th century and is still painted today, in its ornamental-mandala mode: flat panchavarna pigments (red, yellow, green, black, white over an ochre ground), a bold lamp-black outline, the radial lotus-mandala prabha and the school's elongated lotus-shaped eyes. Gond painting comes from the Gond Adivasi communities of central India, with its best-known school formed by the Pradhan Gond of Patangarh and the wider Dindori region of Madhya Pradesh. The contemporary form is largely the legacy of Jangarh Singh Shyam (1962–2001), whose distinctive line-and-in-fill manner — every form bounded by a bold outline, then filled with rows of dots, dashes, commas and scales — became known as Jangarh Kalam and was carried on by his family and students.

Updated 22 Jun 2026