Hyacinth Macaw
Hand-painted on wasli paper, gold-leaf border
Enquire on WhatsAppA brush passed down, not bought
In Marwar, miniature painting was never taught in a classroom. It was taught at home — a grandfather guiding a child's hand over a half-finished elephant procession, a mother grinding lapis into the exact blue of these city walls. Our family has kept that unbroken thread for many generations, and it is still how we learn today.
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The first hands
Our family's earliest painters worked for the old courts of Marwar, illustrating manuscripts and court scenes on hand-made wasli paper — the discipline our style still carries.
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Kept alive at home
Through the generations that followed, the craft moved from royal commissions into the family home — taught quietly, evening after evening, to whichever child showed the patience for it.
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Working artists, today
Today our family and the artist friends we've grown up beside paint full-time from Jodhpur — some on canvas for collectors abroad, some still on paper in the old court style, all from the same well of technique.
