Photos and Diary from a visit to the newly refurbished Bani das ki Bawari stepwell at Dausa, Rajasthan. All the walls are painted with folk art images.
We buy our Indian miniatures from Mukesh, a fourth-generation painter, who sits and works in the traditional Rajasthani style in his small shop in the market street at Bundi, Rajasthan.
This Gond drawing depicts a magical world where the deer's antlers morph effortlessly into the branches of a tree, with numerous side branches, leaves and buds. Symbolic of the interconnectedness of all life.
Kalamkari, sometimes spelt kalamakari, craft is a very old tradition of Indian folk art painting centered around Andhra Pradesh in South India. Kalam means pen and kari translates as drawing.