Pastoral Wall Art

Pastoral — 19 museum-grade prints that set the mood. DESIGN BRIEF: the brief was the moment after the cut, so the hero is a large oval medallion holding the threshing floor itself — pairs of yoked oxen walking a circle over the grain while figures drive them and toss it with winnowing forks — and the rest of the harvest stacks in bands above and below. We held the fill to medium and kept the fish-net frame open rather than a packed mesh, with clear oxblood ground around the oval so the oxen, the sheaves and the winnowing read at a glance. Khovar is the marriage wall art of Hazaribagh district, Jharkhand, combed by women of tribal and Kurmi communities onto the bridal chamber before a wedding, using a sgraffito technique — wet white kaolin slip over a dark base coat, combed and scratched away with a broken comb so the dark ground reads as line. Dokra (Dhokra) is the lost-wax brass casting of the same plateau region; its cattle bells, lamps and figures are a living tribal metal craft. Cows are the heart of Pushtimarg (Vallabh) devotion — go-seva, the care of cattle, is inseparable from worship of Shrinathji, the cowherd child-Krishna of the Nathdwara haveli-temple in Rajasthan. The horizontal cow-register is a classic pichwai motif; here it carries a contemporary dairy economy.

Updated 22 Jun 2026