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A bright peacock spreads its wings and takes flight in this fantastical Madhubani painting from India's Vidushini. Created with acrylic on handmade paper, the work mesmerizes with vivid hues of red, blue, yellow, and turquoise painted in clean, graphic lines. A lovely floral motif surrounds the bird, creating the impression of a window or a door. Madhubani paintings originated in Bihar, India, where they were used to adorn walls and floors of homes and other buildings.

India's Bharti Dayal demonstrates a mother's unconditional love for her child in the this charming folk painting. The artist uses brushes, sharpened reeds, and pen nibs with acrylic on handmade paper to create the stylized appearance of the two figures and the swirling bird and flower designs that surround them.

Marveling at a garden of flowers and peacocks, Hindu Goddess Radha and Supreme God Krishna leave a trail of love and compassion emblematic of their eternal bond. Inseparable since their love began, Radha and Kirshna exist within each other, making their existence mutually inclusive. Their pure consciousness in the garden scene demonstrates their inner peace, symbolized by each flower, swirl and bird. Krishna's leftward-facing peacock feather crown alludes to the presence of two peacocks who mirror their respective deities, with one looking right and the other left. Each vine of the garden spirals into its own unique shape, providing foliage and a home for colorful flowers and little birds. Kirshna becomes one with this garden, mingling with the spiral vines, seemingly floating across the scene. Bharti Dayal paints 'Eternal Love of Radha Krishna' in a two-dimensional contemporary style to concentrate on narrating one of Hinduism's greatest love stories for a modern audience.

"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.

Fish swim in formation, each one depicted in a sensuous Madhubani painting by Bharti Dayal. Their bodies form a circle, suggesting an infinite love. Above and below, bird couples sing to one another. Bright jewel-like colors and a naïf style define the work by Bharti Dayal. It is executed in vegetable dye on handmade paper in the traditional Mithila style of northern Bihar.

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

In a dreamlike world of harmonious nature, Hindu deity Krishna merges with representations of green land and blue water, depicted wearing a bird feather crown and holding a flute. To his side, a swirling and bifurcating tree ascends to the heavens, laden with the songbirds of divinity. A series of eyes line the trunk of the tree, watching the faithful as they perform their eternal duties. Among the most revered and celebrated of the Hindu deities, Krishna plays a central role in the lives of followers of Hinduism. Bharti Dayal paints 'Divine Eye of Krishna' in the traditional Madhubani style, popularized in 1967 following the great famine of the Mithila region, utilizing outlined two-dimensional shapes painted in solid, vegetable dye hues to create a fantastical aesthetic without the distraction of perspective.

"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.

A tree's branches are home to two elegant peacocks in this Madhubani painting, featuring an impressive level of detail. Devendra Kumar Jha works with natural dyes on handmade paper to create a joyous Madhubani painting in black and white. This traditional style of painting originates from India's Maithili village.

This breathtaking folk painting by Indian artist Bharti Dayal celebrates the eternal love between Hindu deities Krishna and his chief consort, Radha. In this scene they share a private moment as she asks him to play his magical flute, oblivious to the world around them. Acrylic paints and vegetable dyes in bright hues of red, green, blue, brown, grey, black, beige and yellow are applied on handmade paper to craft the exquisite painting in the traditional Madhubani style.

Bharti Dayal celebrates her love of nature in the ancient style of Madhubani painting. Dayal mixes vegetable dyes with acrylics to paint peacocks perched within the spreading branches of a great tree. Subtle touches of red and pink relieve the otherwise black and white composition. Traditionally painted by women from Mithila on the walls and floor of their homes, Madhubani paintings often depict ancient mythological themes.

Please note: Bharti Dayal signs her pieces on the back side.

Bharti Dayal celebrates her love of nature in the ancient style of Madhubani painting. Dayal mixes vegetable dyes with acrylics to paint peacocks perched within the spreading branches of a great tree. Subtle touches of red and pink relieve the otherwise black and white composition. Traditionally painted by women from Mithila on the walls and floor of their homes, Madhubani paintings often depict ancient mythological themes.

Please note: Bharti Dayal signs her pieces on the back side.

Ostentatious peacocks flirt coyly as they sit in the Tree of Life in this original work by India's Bharti Dayal. The artist creates the painting in acrylic paint and vegetable dyes on handmade paper in the traditional folk art style known as Madhubani or Mithila painting. The tradition is kept alive by women in Bihar, where they paint detailed scenes of mythology and nature on the walls and floors of their homes.

A young princess waits for her beloved in this beautiful folk painting by renowned Indian artist Bharti Dayal. The princess is wearing exquisite traditional Hindu attire and her pet parrot is calmly sitting on a tree branch while she looks in anticipation for her loved one with the setting sun as a backdrop. The Madhubani-style painting, made with acrylic paint and vegetable dyes on handmade paper, features shades of red, green, blue, pink, turquoise, black, grey, beige and yellow.

Simply flourishing, an intricate tree lush with leaves and flowers is depicted in this Madhubani painting by Indian artist Ambika Devi. Lovely birds hang out among the tree's branches, painted with natural vegetable dyes on handmade paper. Often used to celebrate nature, Madhubani art originates in the Mithila region of India, and is traditionally reserved for women.