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Lord Vishnu
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Religious Art

Lord Vishnu

This traditional Kerala Mural painting portrays Lord Vishnu, beautifully rendered on canvas using vibrant acrylic colours. The artwork features intricate hand-painted details, expressive forms, and the distinctive style of Kerala’s traditional mural art. Lord Vishnu’s divine presence, symbolizing preservation, protection, and cosmic harmony, is portrayed through rich colours, graceful expressions, and traditional ornamental elements. Each detail is carefully painted by hand, reflecting the skill and devotion of the artist while celebrating Kerala’s rich cultural and artistic heritage.

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Lord Shree Krishna
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Religious Art

Lord Shree Krishna

This traditional Kerala Mural painting portrays Lord Sree Krishna, beautifully rendered on canvas using vibrant acrylic colours. The artwork features intricate hand-painted details, expressive forms, and the distinctive style of Kerala’s traditional mural art. Krishna’s divine presence is portrayed through rich colours, graceful expressions, and traditional ornamental elements. Each detail is carefully painted by hand, reflecting the skill and devotion of the artist while celebrating Kerala’s rich cultural and artistic heritage.

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Goddess Annapurneshwari
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Goddess Annapurneshwari

This traditional Kerala mural painting on canvas depicts Goddess Annapurneshwari, the divine embodiment of nourishment, abundance, prosperity, and compassion. The Goddess is portrayed in a majestic and graceful form, richly adorned with traditional ornaments and an intricately detailed crown. Holding a vessel of rice, she symbolizes the eternal source of food and sustenance. The artwork is painted using acrylic colours, bringing out vibrant shades, fine detailing, and the characteristic richness of Kerala mural art. Intricate floral motifs, traditional ornaments, expressive features, and decorative patterns enhance the visual beauty of the composition. The painting beautifully combines devotion, traditional Kerala mural aesthetics, and contemporary acrylic painting techniques, making it a meaningful representation of Kerala’s rich artistic and cultural heritage.

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Harihara – Kerala Mural Painting
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Religious Art

Harihara – Kerala Mural Painting

A beautifully hand-painted depiction of Harihara, the divine union of Lord Vishnu and Lord Shiva, symbolizing harmony and the balance of two powerful divine energies. Created in the traditional Kerala mural painting style using vibrant acrylic colours, the artwork features intricate detailing and rich traditional aesthetics, reflecting the timeless beauty and spiritual essence of Kerala’s mural heritage.

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Elephant and ancient warrior
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Folk Art

Elephant and ancient warrior

Step back into the ancient era before guns and tanks, when fierce wars were commanded from the backs of mighty elephants. This vivid painting captures the raw intensity of fully armed and armored soldiers charging into traditional battle

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The Sacred Offering
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Religious Art

The Sacred Offering

The glowing lamp represents faith, purity, hope, and the victory of light over darkness. The composition brings together spirituality and femininity, presenting women as carriers of tradition and devotion. Through warm, radiant hues, the artwork invites the viewer into a moment of quiet reverence. It beautifully captures the timeless essence of cultural heritage passed down through generations

$ 159
Fading Echoes: Traditional Alpona on a Heritage Verandah
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Folk Art

Fading Echoes: Traditional Alpona on a Heritage Verandah

Every abandoned space holds a lingering memory of the love that built it. This evocative original artwork captures the quiet, bittersweet beauty of a forgotten balcony. Crafted with a highly textured blend of acrylics and oil pastels, the painting centers around a striking, intricate alpona design. Historically a symbol of joy, welcoming, and meticulous care, this flowing white motif stands as the anchor of the piece, telling the story of a home that was once deeply cherished and fiercely loved. The weathered background—layered with earthy terracotta, rust, and burnt orange hues—represents the silent, undeniable passage of time. Against this fading architectural backdrop, the enduring curves of the alpona remain boldly detailed, serving as a lingering echo of life and devotion in an otherwise empty space. This piece is more than just a painting; it is a visual narrative of nostalgia, heritage, and the enduring nature of memory. Perfect for: Collectors who appreciate art with a profound story, cultural significance, and the poetic beauty of rustic, forgotten places.

$ 259
Gond Majestic Tigers
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Tribal Art

Gond Majestic Tigers

In Gond traditions, the tiger is more than a creature of the wild. It is strength, protection, and the living rhythm of the forest. Every stripe carries meaning, every curve holds the memory of a visual language passed down through generations of Gondi artists from Madhya Pradesh. The tiger is not depicted from a distance here. It is rendered from the inside, each element of the body filled with the dots, dashes, and repeated patterns that give Gond art its distinctive energy and meditative depth. This is nature understood as interconnection rather than spectacle, painted with the patient hand of an artist who sees the forest as a continuous living system rather than a backdrop.

$ 129
Dudh Lautawa: A Gond Wedding Tradition by Kaushal Prasad Tekam
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Dudh Lautawa: A Gond Wedding Tradition by Kaushal Prasad Tekam

Dudh Lautawa: A Gond Wedding Tradition is an original Gond painting by acclaimed artist Kaushal Prasad Tekam, depicting the traditional Dudh Lautawa ceremony practiced among Gond communities of Central India. Dudh Lautawa, literally meaning "returning the milk," is an important wedding ritual that symbolizes gratitude, reciprocity, and the bonds between families. The ceremony acknowledges the nurturing role of the maternal family and celebrates the social relationships that sustain community life. In this painting, the bride, groom, family members, and ceremonial participants gather around a richly adorned Tree of Life, a recurring symbol of continuity, prosperity, and interconnectedness in Gond culture. The branches of the tree are filled with ceremonial objects, ornaments, musical instruments, and symbols of abundance, while birds animate the composition, representing harmony and the transmission of cultural knowledge across generations. Through intricate patterns and vibrant colours, Kaushal Prasad Tekam transforms this living tradition into a powerful visual narrative that preserves and celebrates Gond cultural heritage. Artist: Kaushal Prasad Tekam Medium: Acrylic on Canvas Dimensions: 36 × 48 Inches Art Form: Gond Art Origin: Madhya Pradesh, India

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Forest Symphony by Kaushal Prasad Tekam
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Nature‑Inspired Paintings

Forest Symphony by Kaushal Prasad Tekam

Forest Symphony is an original Gond painting by acclaimed artist Kaushal Prasad Tekam, portraying the vibrant rhythms of life within an Indian forest. Birds perch among flourishing trees, monkeys move through the canopy, and wild animals inhabit the forest floor, creating a visual narrative of coexistence and ecological balance. Executed in the distinctive Gond tradition, the artwork employs intricate line work, detailed patterns, and vibrant colours to animate every living form. The composition reflects the Gond community's deep connection with nature, where forests are viewed not merely as landscapes but as living entities filled with stories, spirits, and interconnected life. Rich in detail and symbolism, this work celebrates biodiversity, harmony, and the enduring relationship between humans and the natural world. Artist: Kaushal Prasad Tekam Size: 48 X 37 inches Art Form: Gond Art Medium: Acrylic on Canvas Style: Contemporary Gond Tribal Art Origin: Madhya Pradesh, India

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Birds
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Tribal Art

Birds

They go in every direction. Some point upward, some hang suspended at an angle, some face left, some right, one small pair rests at the bottom edge of the composition as though they have only just landed and have not yet decided where to go next. There is no flock logic here, no shared trajectory. Each bird occupies its own orientation within the white ground, as though thought itself has been given a body and scattered across the page in the moment before it coheres into something more orderly. This is precisely what Sandip Dhurve intended. The birds in this painting are a self-portrait of the mind at work, of the thoughts that arrive while the hand is moving, that go sideways and upside down and diagonal before they find their direction. Each bird is built with the same patient attention: scale patterning across the rounded body, fine parallel hatching in the wings, a large watchful eye, a sharp beak that points wherever the creature is going. No two are oriented alike. Together they create not chaos but the honest record of a mind thinking, which has its own rhythm and its own logic even when it does not announce them. Dhurve works in the Gond tradition of Madhya Pradesh, where the natural world is understood as continuous with the inner one, where a bird is never only a bird. Drawn on paper in monochrome, this work is one of the most intimate in his practice: a composition that is also a confession, a field of creatures that is also a field of thought. Why This Artwork Stands Out ### The scattered, multi-directional arrangement of the birds translates the movement of thought into compositional form, making the painting's structure and its subject inseparable from one another. Each bird is individually rendered with the full vocabulary of Gond mark-making, scale, hatch and dot, giving a composition of repeated forms, the intimacy and variation of a hand-written page. The large, expressive eyes on each figure give the scattered birds a quality of alert interiority, so that the composition feels less like an observation of nature and more like an encounter with consciousness. Dhurve's willingness to make his own thinking the subject of a Gond painting is a quietly radical gesture, demonstrating the tradition's capacity to hold personal and philosophical content within its visual language.

$ 379
Porcupine
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Tribal Art

Porcupine

The tree and the animal are not two separate subjects. They have grown into one another so completely that it is no longer possible to say where the roots end and the creature begins. The porcupine moves through the lower half of the composition with a grounded, unhurried confidence, its body built from the same visual vocabulary as the tree above it: dotwork, scale patterning, close hatching, the layered marks of a hand that understands every living form as a system of interconnected textures. From its back, a great sweep of quills rises and fans outward, and it is here that the tree takes over, the quills becoming roots becoming trunk becoming the wide, bird-filled canopy that crowns the entire composition. The transition is seamless because in the Gond world view it is not a transition at all. It is simply how things are. Birds perch throughout the upper branches with the ease of creatures that have always lived here. The canopy is dense and full, rendered in the close dotwork and branching line that Sandip Dhurve uses to suggest not just foliage but the accumulated life that foliage supports. The white background throughout is not emptiness but space, held open so that the intricate mark-making of the figure can breathe. Dhurve works in the Gond tradition of Madhya Pradesh, a visual language built on the understanding that every creature carries a world within it, and that the relationship between animal, tree and bird is not metaphor but fact. This painting makes that fact visible, quietly and without argument, in the most direct and patient of marks. Why This Artwork Stands Out ### The seamless visual integration of porcupine and tree collapses the boundary between animal and plant into a single, continuous form, expressing the Gond worldview of ecological interconnection with rare compositional intelligence. The transition from quill to root to trunk to canopy is achieved entirely through mark-making, demonstrating Dhurve's mastery of the Gond visual vocabulary across multiple textures within a single work. The birds in the canopy and the porcupine at the base establish a complete vertical ecology, from earth to sky, within the space of one quietly extraordinary image. The monochromatic palette gives the intricate surface detail its full authority, with no colour to distract from the quality and precision of the mark itself.

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Navadurga
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Folk Art

Navadurga

This beautiful Navgurga Madhubani painting set represents the nine divine forms of Goddess Durga, symbolizing strength, protection, and spiritual energy. Each artwork in the set is intricately handcrafted, showcasing traditional Mithila art with fine detailing, expressive figures, and decorative patterns. The harmonious composition of all nine forms creates a powerful visual impact, making it perfect for spiritual spaces, पूजा rooms, or elegant home décor. The use of traditional colors and motifs reflects rich Indian heritage and devotion. This handcrafted collection is ideal for festive decoration, especially during Navratri, and also makes a meaningful and auspicious gift.

$ 2,529
Doli-Kahaar
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Folk Art

Doli-Kahaar

This vibrant Madhubani painting titled “Doli-Kahaar” beautifully depicts a traditional Indian wedding procession, where the bride is carried in a decorated palanquin (doli) by kahaar (bearers). The artwork captures the essence of cultural heritage, celebration, and ritual with intricate detailing and storytelling. Adorned with lush trees, birds, and rhythmic human figures, the painting reflects harmony, festivity, and movement. The use of bright natural colors and fine patterns highlights the richness of Mithila art. Handcrafted with precision, this piece is perfect for enhancing home décor with a cultural touch or gifting to someone who appreciates traditional Indian art.

$ 1,649
Love at first sight
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Folk Art

Love at first sight

This beautiful Madhubani painting titled “Love at First Sight” captures a timeless romantic moment inspired by Indian tradition. The artwork showcases a graceful interaction between figures under a tree, symbolizing the beginning of love and emotional connection. Created using traditional Mithila art techniques, the painting features intricate linework, detailed patterns, and a harmonious blend of black, white, and soft red tones. Every element—from the expressive eyes to the decorative motifs—tells a story of culture, elegance, and craftsmanship. Perfect for home décor, this handmade artwork adds a touch of tradition and sophistication to any space. It also makes a thoughtful and unique gift for art lovers and special occasions.

$ 1,499
Shakuntala 's eyes searching for King Dushyant
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Folk Art

Shakuntala 's eyes searching for King Dushyant

This exquisite artwork captures the timeless moment of Shakuntala lost in thought, her eyes searching for King Dushyant. Created in the traditional Madhubani style, the painting beautifully blends intricate patterns, symbolic elements, and delicate expressions. The use of fine linework, natural motifs like birds and trees, and a soft pink palette enhances its emotional depth and cultural richness. Handcrafted with precision, this piece reflects the heritage of Indian folk art, making it perfect for home décor, gifting, or art collections. The detailed storytelling and graceful composition add a touch of elegance and tradition to any space.

$ 1,499
Forest Animals
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Tribal Art

Forest Animals

Four wild boars press together in a tightly packed, overlapping group in this handmade painting by Kaushal Prasad Tekam, their stout bodies rendered in earthy bands of brown, ochre, orange, blue and mauve, each band filled with dense rows of short dash marks that give every surface a richly textured, woven quality. The animals face in different directions, their leaf-shaped ears, expressive eyes and curling tails giving each one a distinct personality despite the uniformity of the palette. The overlapping arrangement compresses the four figures into a single, almost sculptural mass, their bodies merging at the edges in a visual metaphor for the closeness and collective movement of a herd. Painted in acrylic on paper against a warm peach ground, the work captures the Gond understanding of forest animals not as isolated specimens but as creatures that move, rest and exist as a group, their bodies and fates bound together. The earthy, autumnal palette of brown, ochre, orange and blue gives this original artwork a warm, grounded quality that feels drawn directly from the forest floor, the muted tones creating a colour harmony that is both sophisticated and deeply organic. Kaushal Prasad Tekam's dash-work technique builds every band of colour from thousands of individually drawn short marks, creating a surface density that rewards close viewing and distinguishes this handcrafted painting from any printed reproduction. As a piece of Indian art, every boar, every band and every dash was created entirely by hand, carrying an authenticity and individuality that mass-produced prints cannot replicate. This painting holds compelling appeal as distinctive wall art for contemporary home decor and as a culturally significant collectible from the living traditions of Gond tribal painting, available on Rooftop. Why This Artwork Stands Out ### Every band and dash mark is applied entirely by hand by Kaushal Prasad Tekam, making this a unique original artwork of exceptional handcrafted detail. The tightly packed, overlapping composition of four wild boars creates a powerful sense of herd movement and collective energy rooted in Gond forest observation. The warm, earthy palette of brown, ochre, orange and blue gives the work a grounded, organic presence that complements a wide range of home decor and wall art settings. As an authentic Gond painting by a practising master artist, this artwork carries significant cultural relevance and enduring collectible value.

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Forest Birds
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Tribal Art

Forest Birds

Four birds are gathered in a close, overlapping arrangement in this handmade painting by Kala Bai Shyam, their plump bodies built from chequerboard blocks of fine horizontal and vertical stripes in alternating palettes of green-and-yellow and orange-and-pink. Two larger birds dominate the composition, one in green and one in warm orange, their wings spread wide as though caught mid-flight or mid-landing, while two smaller birds tuck between them, their compact bodies adding notes of contrasting colour to the grouping. The alternation of green and orange across the four figures creates a rhythmic colour dialogue, the warm and cool tones weaving through the composition like a visual melody. Painted in acrylic on paper, the work presents the forest's bird life not as individual portraits but as a collective, a flock rendered in the graphic, textile-like language of Kala Bai Shyam's distinctive woven-stripe technique. The interplay of green and orange gives this original artwork a fresh, nature-inspired colour harmony that is both vibrant and balanced, the two palettes amplifying each other's intensity against the clean white ground. The overlapping arrangement of the four bodies creates a sense of closeness and communal energy, the birds existing not as separate figures but as parts of a single, interconnected group. Kala Bai Shyam's stripe work is applied with characteristic precision across every wing and body, each block of fine lines drawn individually by hand. As a piece of handcrafted Indian art, every bird was painted entirely by hand, carrying the irreplaceable warmth and authenticity of the truly handmade. This painting holds beautiful appeal as distinctive wall art for contemporary home decor and as a collectible of enduring cultural significance within the Gond tribal painting tradition, available on Rooftop. Why This Artwork Stands Out ### Every striped block across all four birds is drawn entirely by hand by Kala Bai Shyam, ensuring this is a genuine one-of-a-kind original artwork. The overlapping, flock-like arrangement creates a dynamic sense of communal movement and energy that captures the spirit of forest bird life. The fresh green and warm orange palette produces a vibrant, nature-inspired colour harmony that adds life and warmth to any wall art arrangement or interior setting. As an authentic Gond painting by a practising master artist, this artwork carries significant cultural relevance and enduring collectible value.

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Gond Animals & Birds
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Gond Animals & Birds

Eight creatures fill this handmade painting by Kala Bai Shyam in a grid-like arrangement of animal forms, each one rendered in bold, interlocking stripes of green, blue, red, pink and brown that give every body a woven, basket-like texture. The menagerie includes deer, owls, cats, dogs and birds, each creature occupying its own space on the warm peach ground, their wide eyes and expressive faces giving every figure a distinct personality. Two round, owl-like creatures sit at the centre with large, heart-shaped facial markings, their compact bodies contrasting with the elongated forms of the running deer and reclining cats that surround them. At the bottom, two birds face in opposite directions, their plump bodies patterned with the same striped, woven technique that unifies the entire composition. Painted in acrylic on paper, the work presents a Gond bestiary: a catalogue of forest inhabitants rendered with affection, humour and an unmistakable graphic boldness. The all-over arrangement of eight distinct creatures gives this original artwork a visual abundance and variety that makes it endlessly engaging, each animal offering its own colour combination and character within the shared language of Kala Bai Shyam's striped, woven-pattern technique. The warm palette of green, pink, blue and brown creates a colour harmony that is both cheerful and sophisticated, the interlocking horizontal lines building a textural richness across every surface. As a piece of handcrafted Indian art, every creature was painted entirely by hand, every stripe and colour block placed with the deliberate care of a master practitioner. This painting holds exceptional appeal as distinctive wall art for contemporary home decor, particularly in spaces that welcome warmth, colour and personality, and as a collectible of enduring cultural significance within the Gond tribal painting tradition, available on Rooftop. Why This Artwork Stands Out ### Every creature is painted entirely by hand by Kala Bai Shyam, with each of the eight animals individually patterned, making this a unique original artwork of remarkable handcrafted detail. The bestiary-style composition of eight distinct forest creatures creates a visually abundant and engaging work that rewards repeated viewing. The warm, cheerful palette and expressive animal faces give the painting a charm and personality that enlivens any wall art arrangement or home decor setting. As an authentic Gond painting by a practising master artist, this artwork carries significant cultural relevance and enduring collectible value.

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Birds on a Tree
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Tribal Art

Birds on a Tree

A blue tree rises at the centre of this handmade painting by Kala Bai Shyam, its trunk patterned with small leaf-like marks in green, red and purple, its branches spreading outward in a graceful, asymmetric canopy that hosts a gathering of birds in muted pinks, browns and ochres. The birds are rendered with fine, wavy line work that gives each one a rippled, feathered texture, their bodies perched, resting and nesting among the branches and the pale green and yellow leaves that fill the spaces between them. At the base of the tree, a large woodpecker-like bird clings to the trunk with a vivid, striped body, while a smaller cross-hatched bird stands on the ground nearby, its posture alert and watchful. Painted in acrylic on paper against a warm peach ground, the composition presents the tree as the centre of a small avian world, a gathering place where every branch holds a different creature and every branch tells a different part of the same story. The cool blue of the trunk against the warm pinks and browns of the birds creates a colour harmony that is gentle and inviting, the muted tones giving this original artwork a quality of quiet refinement that distinguishes it from more intensely chromatic tribal art. Kala Bai Shyam's fine line work builds every surface with a patience and consistency that is the hallmark of the Gond tradition, the rippled patterns on the birds and the delicate leaf marks on the trunk each drawn individually by hand. As a piece of handcrafted Indian art, every branch, bird and leaf was created entirely by hand, carrying the irreplaceable warmth and authenticity of the truly handmade. This painting holds beautiful appeal as distinctive wall art for contemporary home decor and as a collectible of enduring cultural significance within the Gond tribal painting tradition, available on Rooftop. Why This Artwork Stands Out ### Every bird, branch and trunk marking is drawn entirely by hand by Kala Bai Shyam, ensuring this is a genuine one-of-a-kind original artwork. The gathering of multiple bird species around a single tree creates a rich, narrative composition rooted in the Gond tradition's deep connection with forest ecology. The gentle palette of blue, pink, brown and ochre gives the work a refined, understated elegance suited to both contemporary and traditionally styled interiors. As an authentic Gond painting by a practising master artist, this artwork carries significant cultural relevance and enduring collectible value.

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