Joyful Wall Art

Joyful — 30 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. Makar Sankranti — kept in Telangana over several days in mid-January — is celebrated across western and southern India with rooftop kite-flying, sweets and bonfires marking the sun's turn toward the north. Cheriyal scroll painting 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, with stacked registers used to narrate a sequence of scenes. 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