Warm Everyday Wall Art

Warm Everyday — 14 museum-grade prints that set the mood. Kerala's Malabar coast was the hinge of the global spice trade for two millennia — black pepper, cardamom and cinnamon drew Roman, Arab, Chinese and later European ships to Kochi, Kozhikode and Kollam. This print sets that everyday merchant 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. Coir — the fibre spun from coconut husk — is one of Kerala's signature crafts, centred on Alappuzha and the coastal belt, and the spinning is largely women's work done on traditional wheels in open yards. This print sets that scene 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. Cheriyal scroll painting comes from Cheriyal village in Telangana's Siddipet district, painted for generations by the Nakashi artist community on a signature red ground. Traditionally these were long cloth scrolls unrolled episode by episode by travelling balladeers who sang epics and caste-origin legends to village audiences, with stacked horizontal registers used for sequential scenes.

Updated 22 Jun 2026