Festive Wall Art

Festive — 87 museum-grade prints that set the mood. DESIGN BRIEF: the brief was the women's pot dance, so the hero is full-width rows of dancers each balancing a stack of pots on her head, knees bent into the step, with barrel-drummers anchoring the ends of the rows. We held the fill to medium and kept the fish-net frame open rather than a packed mesh, leaving clear deep-maroon ground between the rows so the balanced pots and the bent-knee bodies read at a glance and never blur into one mass. 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. Janmashtami marks the midnight birth of Krishna; households set up and rock a small cradle (jhula), and the flute (bansuri) and peacock feather are his constant attributes, with conch shells sounded at worship. Bathukamma is Telangana's autumn flower festival, held over nine days around Durga Navaratri, when women build a conical stack of seasonal blooms — gunugu, tangedu, marigold — and circle it singing through the evening before floating it on a tank or lake. Cheriyal scroll painting itself comes from Cheriyal village in Telangana's Siddipet district, painted by the Nakashi artist community on a signature red ground and once unrolled by travelling balladeers to narrate epics and caste legends.

Updated 22 Jun 2026