Open Air Wall Art

Open Air — 2 museum-grade prints that set the mood. The Cheena vala — the shore-operated cantilever lift nets at Fort Kochi — are among Kerala's most recognised sights, by tradition linked to Chinese traders and the Malabar coast's long maritime contact. This print sets them inside bhitti chitra, Kerala's temple-mural tradition that flourished roughly from the 16th to 19th century and is still painted today: flat panchavarna pigments (red, yellow, green, black, white over an ochre ground), a bold lamp-black outline and the school's elongated lotus-shaped eyes. The char-bagh — a garden quartered by paths and water channels around a central tank or fountain — was the favoured plan of the Amber and Jaipur ateliers, who painted princes and companions in formal pleasure-gardens of clipped beds, kiosks and running water. This contemporary fusion borrows that exact garden-plan grammar for a modern municipal botanical garden, the cool-morning park where a whole city walks.

Updated 22 Jun 2026