Sahyadri Memory Wall Art

Sahyadri Memory — 2 museum-grade prints that set the mood. Warli painting is the ritual and daily-life art of the Warli (Varli) Adivasi community of the North Sahyadri range in Maharashtra — Palghar, Thane, Dahanu, Jawhar, and adjoining districts — traditionally executed by women on interior hut walls coated with geru red earth and cow dung, using white pigment from rice paste, water, and gum applied with chewed bamboo sticks. Motifs rely on circles, triangles, and squares: circle heads and wheels, triangle torsos, square chauk fields for sacred geometry at weddings. Warli Adivasi communities across Vikramgad, Jawhar, Mokhada, and Palghar talukas maintain a visual language where forest animals — deer, peacock, hare, bear — appear alongside human gathering and farming scenes on interior hut walls painted with rice paste over geru and cow-dung ground. Deer often signal forest abundance and the community's reciprocal relationship with wild margins, not merely decorative fauna.

Updated 14 Jun 2026