Monsoon Fresh Wall Art

Monsoon Fresh — 10 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. Western Odisha — Bargarh and the Sambalpur tract — is the state's rice bowl, planted by hand each monsoon as women transplant seedlings into flooded fields, work that has its own songs and rhythm. The lotus tank (kamal-talai) and the peacock are the great secular motifs of Nathdwara pichwai — the painted cloth (pichhwai, literally 'that which hangs at the back') hung behind the Shrinathji deity to set the seasonal scene. Lotus-pond cloths come out in the monsoon and autumn months, echoing the temple's own bloom; peacocks signal the rains. Peacock-dance cloths belong to the monsoon in Nathdwara's seasonal calendar — the peacock, displaying as the rains break, is among the most beloved pichwai motifs. A pichhwai (literally 'that which hangs at the back') is the painted cloth hung behind the Shrinathji deity to set the season's mood; the rain-month cloths bring out peacocks, clouds and lush green groves.

Updated 22 Jun 2026