Madhubani is one of the very ancient style of painting, originated around Bihar and Nepal. It is also called as Maithili style of painting.

In that era, the women were not generally expected to make public appearance. As such they would generally be busy doing their daily household chorus, taking care of elderly and children, at home. Whenever they find some time, they would entertain themselves by doing these kinds of paintings.

Basically, these were wall paintings created with help of rice floor. At times, these were also painted on ‘Bhoorjapatra’ (a big size leaf of Bhoorja tree) using vegetable colors and other natural colors. Lately, fabric and paper were also used.

The subjects of these paintings would usually be about the deities, gods, kings, other mythological stories and other objects like Sun, Moon etc. Around the main subject, no space were left empty, usually filled with some or the other design.

Considering the limitations of those women, it was obvious that the paintings in Madhubani style are generally two dimensional. It does not have the depth which is normally seen in the paintings of the recent era.

Though there are many such ancient painting styles in India, I was somehow got attracted to this style, may be because of the spaceful of designs and colors. While practicing on them, and idea of creating the fusion of this folk art and fine art came to my mind. The use of fine art was an attempt to give the third dimension to the paintings in this style with help of the fine art. I tried to blend Folk and Fine to create a little different ‘avatar’ of this style.