Dr Piyush Kiran Nayak — Mithila / Madhubani Artist, Bhopal, India
Original Mithila (Madhubani) paintings by Dr Piyush Kiran Nayak — gods and goddesses, nature, mythology, festivals and folk life, each with a catalogue note.
Folk Life · Festivals · Contemporary Mithila
Two childhood friends find each other again at the edge of a river, and in that moment the fair dissolves into something quieter — a conversation that the Ganges has been holding in trust for years. This painting translates Kailash Gautam's poem of rural gathering into the linework and colour of the Mithila hand.
Gods & Goddesses · Mythology
In a world rendered entirely in black ink, a single act of devotion holds the entire composition still. Line by patient line, the artist maps a night that Mithila painters have never ceased to remember.
Gods & Goddesses · Nature · Folk Life
An ancient face looks outward from the centre of the picture plane, ringed by leaves and bounded by the steady procession of living creatures. Rooted in the Godna tradition and inspired by the work of Chanu Devi, the composition holds stillness and rhythm in equal measure.
Festivals · Folk Life
Around a platter bright with bangles, five women gather in the particular warmth of Sawan — the monsoon month that turns marketplaces into places of laughter, colour, and shared anticipation. Here, the simple act of choosing bangles together becomes a portrait of feminine companionship.
Folk Life · Nature · Contemporary Mithila
A woman waits, and the birds know before she does. In this work, the natural world becomes a courier of longing, carrying news across the distance that separates two people.
Folk Life · Nature
A woman steers a peacock-shaped vessel across rhythmically rendered water, embodying the Sanskrit injunction to keep moving, to press forward without ceasing. In the spare grammar of kachni line work and the contrast of red and black, the composition renders continuity itself visible.
Gods & Goddesses · Mythology
In this work, devotion and geometry hold each other in careful balance. The goddess and the diagram speak, it seems, across the same silence.
Nature
In the grammar of Mithila painting, the tree is never simply a tree — it is a presence, a shelter, an axis around which life organises itself. Here, that presence is rendered with quiet authority in the katchni tradition, its canopy alive with parrots whose green cuts cleanly through a palette of black and white.
Nature
A single tree holds the world together — earth below, sky above, and every living thing finding its place along the stem. In this work, the artist distils that ancient intuition into spare, exacting line, rendering nature as an interconnected whole in which growth, harmony, and continuity are inseparable.
Mythology · Gods & Goddesses · Festivals
This Mithila (Madhubani) painting depicts the legendary story of Holika and Prahlad, which forms the mythological foundation of the festival of Holi.