decorative paintings

The sky is as clear blue as Krishna's cloud complexion. He spends a sunny day with Radha beneath a fruit tree. Playing his flute to pass the time, the young lord mesmerizes his beloved, whose love for the young Hindu lord is infinite. All is beauty in this charming Madhubani painting by Devendra Kumar Jha. Originating in northern Bihar, Madhubani painting was once used to decorate the floors and walls of homes.

As each painting is an individual creation, each is unique. Colors and motifs may vary slightly from that pictured.

Indian artist Vidushini portrays a loving mother and joyful baby elephant strolling in the gardens using the Madhubani style of painting. Madhubani art began in the village of Maithili, of the Bihar state, originally created by women on the walls of their home. This style evolved from elaborate home decorations to becoming important aspects of festivals and eventually appealing to lovers of art both within India and internationally. The painting is signed by Vidushini, who specializes in Madhubani styles at this time and even had her artwork selected to be the cover of Delhi University's textbook, Indian History and Culture.

A magical scene decorates a Madhubani painting by Sarita Devi from India. Drawing inspiration from the region's classic symbolism, the artisan merges peacocks and fish in a precious composition made with vegetable dyes and traditional techniques on handmade paper. With the peacocks embodying royalty and power, the fish create a vibrant accent while symbolizing abundance, all on a leafy background enhanced by warm colors that attract happiness and optimism.

The painting comes signed and unstretched.

Sarita Devi looks into the graceful and wise elephant's gaze and finds the inspiration for this pair of Madhubani paintings that illustrate a part of India's worldview. Made with vegetable dyes on paper, the compositions portray elephants decorated with regional ornaments—all represented with red and orange hues—working as good omens of an auspicious future.

The artwork comes signed and unstretched.

India's Sarita Devi captures the spiritual essence of the Hindu doctrine in a captivating Madhubani painting depicting divine entities in an intense palette that evokes nature's magnificence. Crafted with vegetable dyes on paper, this traditional composition represents the gods as majestic suns that rest on fruitful vines, whose leaves and branches go all around the artwork, decorated with a grey edge.

The composition comes signed and unstretched.

India's acclaimed Bharti Dayal illustrates her own interpretation of the enchantment between Hinduism's God and Goddess of love in her painting 'Soulmate - Radha Krishna'. Kirshna and Radha come together under the blue skies of the heavens, with Radha attracting the heart of Radha. Enchanting the Supreme God himself, Rahda reaches the highest level of esteem within Hindu mythology, presiding as Goddess of All. Painted with his arm around Radha while possessing a flute, Krishna appears enamored, young and finely decorated with peacock feathers and floral bands that symbolize the early years of his divine descent from Vishnu. Radha, flanked by Krishna's blue tapestry, exercises her supreme powers of enchantment to merge her own red drapery to create a collective purple, seen below her chin, symbolizing their mutual synthesis into Radha-Krishna.

"Madhubani paintings are in fact a simplistic manifestation of the philosophical heights achieved by Indian civilization for the universal power of love, longing and peace; the quest of all beings," Dayal says.