Rainy Day Wall Art

Rainy Day — 3 museum-grade prints that set the mood. Aipan is the ritual floor- and wall-art of the Kumaon region of Uttarakhand, drawn traditionally by Kumaoni women with white rice-paste (biswar) applied by fingertip onto a geru (red-ochre) earth ground. This fusion piece carries an everyday Pahari monsoon scene into that same two-tone line, anchoring it with the lotus chowki and swastika marks of the tradition's vocabulary. Cheriyal scrolls come from Cheriyal village in Telangana's Siddipet district, painted for generations by the Nakashi artist community as long narrative cloths unrolled by travelling balladeers. Traditionally the scrolls carried epics and caste-origin legends; contemporary Cheriyal work has stretched the same flat-red grammar to everyday Telangana life — markets, streets, festivals. 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 southwest monsoon shapes Odisha life from June onward; the morning vegetable market trading on under the rain is one of its most ordinary, durable sights.

Updated 22 Jun 2026