Playroom Wall Art

Playroom — 9 museum-grade prints sized and toned for the room. Schools across India stage Krishna-leela dances for their annual functions, and the children's dance circle naturally echoes the classical gopi-raas — the ring of gopis dancing around Krishna. A pichhwai (literally 'that which hangs at the back') is the painted cloth hung behind the Shrinathji deity to set the scene; the raas-mandala is one of its loved radial motifs. Pithora is the ritual wall-painting tradition of the Rathwa, Bhil and Bhilala Adivasi communities of Chhota Udepur in eastern Gujarat and the adjoining belt of Madhya Pradesh and Rajasthan. The timli is the community's own circle dance, danced at festivals to the drum and pipe, and the fair carousel, the tractor and the bus are the everyday surroundings of the same villages today; contemporary Pithora artists fold such modern scenes into the wall's flat folk line. 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