Sunday, November 04, 2007

Kerala temple murals



We finally bought a few paintings that are in the Kerala temple art style. N has been very keen to find at least one of them for a while. Our search started in May when we visited a restaurant called Spice Route Courtyard housed in the really Imperial Hotel in New Delhi. We loved it- both for the amazing South East Asian cuisine and the interiors that had artwork we fell in love with but couldn't identify.



We saw another beautiful piece at Ambara in Bangalore and found out more about it. The third time was when I visited Dakshina Chitra a couple of months ago and found 7-8 pieces of this artwork. We picked a couple of pieces and are still in love with them. So we thought our wait was finally over and we started planning where in our apartment we should give them pride of place, not realising it would take a whole 4 weeks to get the canvas framed.



So now, we have the framed canvasses... but are now waiting for the VIP called "The Carpenter" to show up someday.

1 comment:

Harini said...

I don't know how I missed this post earlier.

The paintings are indeed beautiful, intricate and very stylish. Good buy.

Btw, did you finally get hold of the elusive carpenter?