Cafe Restaurant Wall Art

Cafe Restaurant — 16 museum-grade prints sized and toned for the room. Mata ni Pachedi means 'the cloth of the Mother Goddess' — a ritual shrine textile of the Vaghri / Devipujak ('worshippers of the Goddess') community of Ahmedabad, Gujarat, who, barred from temples, painted the Goddess on cloth to make their own portable shrine. The tradition has always ringed the Mother with scenes of community labour. 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. Marwar, the desert court of Jodhpur, is the Rajput school of intense saturated grounds and vigorous action — royal hunts, horsemen and sporting chases set against sandstone forts. This contemporary fusion borrows that energetic action grammar for gully cricket, the street game played in every Indian lane, and sets it in Jodhpur's famous blue-washed old city beneath the Mehrangarh-like fort.

Updated 22 Jun 2026