Craft Room Wall Art

Craft Room — 2 museum-grade prints sized and toned for the room. 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, at thresholds, courtyards, and household shrines for festivals and life-rituals. This fusion piece takes that act of making as its subject — two women drawing a lotus floor-mandala by lamplight — and renders it in the craft's own two-tone line. Bharni — meaning to fill — is the Brahmana women's tradition within Madhubani painting: bold lampblack double outlines and saturated flat colour with little empty ground, historically tied to deities, Ramayana scenes, and wedding Kohbar chambers. Pottery and kumhar craft appear throughout Mithila folk vocabulary — matki water pots, kalash ritual vessels, and wheel motifs on village daily-life panels mirror the same horror vacui discipline as deity walls.

Updated 22 Jun 2026