Lived IN Wall Art

Lived IN — 5 museum-grade prints that set the mood. 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 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. DESIGN BRIEF: the brief was the settlement seen all at once, so instead of a single hero we let the hill village spread across the panel — clusters of conical thatched huts, a tree of life rising near the middle, and the day's work threaded between them. We held the fill to medium and kept the fish-net frame open rather than a packed mesh, so even with many figures the deep-crimson ground keeps threading through and the eye can wander from hut to quern to dance knot without losing its place. DESIGN BRIEF: the brief was the weekly haat, the busiest day a hill village has, so the field fills with rows of seated vendors behind conical heaps of grain and produce while buyers and head-load carriers thread between them. We held the fill to medium and kept the fish-net frame open rather than a packed mesh, so even at its most crowded the deep-maroon ground still threads through and the heaps, sellers and a small canopied stall stay legible.

Updated 22 Jun 2026