Fertile Abundant Wall Art

Fertile Abundant — 2 museum-grade prints that set the mood. Aipan is the ritual floor- and wall-art of the Kumaon region of Uttarakhand, drawn traditionally by Kumaoni women with white rice-paste (biswar) applied by fingertip onto a geru (red-ochre) earth ground. The lotus rising from water and the pair of fish are recurring auspicious motifs — fertility, plenty, and the still pond as a wish for abundance — rendered entirely in line, since the strict two-tone white-on-geru discipline allows no blue or coloured fill for the water. Sohrai is a harvest-season wall art of Hazaribagh district, Jharkhand, painted by women of tribal and Kurmi communities to welcome cattle home after the rice harvest, around Diwali. The climbing vine hung with gourds and flanked by forest and domestic animals is a recurring Sohrai motif of fertility and the bond between household, herd and forest.

Updated 22 Jun 2026