Creative Wall Art

Creative — 2 museum-grade prints that set the mood. Pattachitra is the cloth-painting tradition of Odisha, tied to the Jagannath temple at Puri and the chitrakar families of Raghurajpur, painted on patta (cotton treated with tamarind-seed paste and chalk) in five mineral colours — conch-white, lamp-black, haritala yellow, hingula red and geru brick-orange. Puri's golden beach has become famous for sand art, a tradition carried widely by Odia sculptors whose dawn figures draw onlookers before the tide takes them; the town has long been an artists' and pilgrims' centre around the Jagannath temple. Pithora is the ritual wall-painting tradition of the Rathwa, Bhil and Bhilala Adivasi communities of Chhota Udepur in eastern Gujarat (and the adjoining belt of Madhya Pradesh and Rajasthan). The wall is vowed to Babo Pithoro and painted on the inner wall of the home as thanksgiving or to fulfil a wish; only the Lakhara — the priest-painter, also called the Gor — may carry out the sacred wall, working to the chants of the badva, while the bhopa narrates.

Updated 22 Jun 2026