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We Celebrate our 50th Birthday!
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On the 4th November 1974 we opened a small shop in the Sheffield suburbs called Freewheelin'.
The Warli Paintings of Central India
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In Warli art fish, birds & people are all painted the same size which suggests that all life is equally important.
The Painted Cows of Rajasthan
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I've been going to India for over 45 years but it took me until last October to notice the beauty of Rajasthan's cows so delightfully captured in these paintings.
L'Araba Fenice: An Artshop in Ladakh
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Leh, Ladakh; The shop was a treasure of unusual paintings. The owner was a delightful Kashmiri man who'd been there for many years.
The Wonderful Imagination of India's Warli Tribal Paintings
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Some of the scenes and figures are enclosed inside a kind of bubble that suggests a dream experience in another realm to the rest of the painting.