Morning Light Wall Art

Morning Light — 2 museum-grade prints that set the mood. Cheriyal scrolls come from Cheriyal village in Telangana's Siddipet district, painted for generations by the Nakashi artist community for travelling balladeers — who, among other things, sang the origin legends of the region's working communities. Toddy-tapping (geeta) is the traditional livelihood of the Goud (Gouda/Yadava-linked) community across Telangana, who climb the palmyra and date palm at dawn and dusk to draw kallu, the fresh palm sap. 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. The Konark Sun temple, built in the 13th century as a colossal stone chariot of the sun god Surya, is a UNESCO World Heritage Site (inscribed 1984); its twenty-four carved wheels are among the most recognised images in Odisha.

Updated 22 Jun 2026