Nov 15 2025 to Nov 15 2025 10 a.m.

Price: 1500 Book/Buy

Where

Courtyard Koota

Ground floor, Good Earth Tarana Good Earth Malhar, near Rajarajeswari medical college Kambipura, Bengaluru, Karnataka 560074

Event Description

The basics of Pattachitra with Rohit Bhasi and Layala Chitrakar

An informal workshop where participants get to learn the basics of Pattachitra and create a character in the style of the artform - blending tradition with imagination. This session will be led by Pattachitra artist Layala Chitrakar and contemporary artist and muralist Rohit Bhasi.

Layala will demonstrate the traditional method of painting male and female figures, while Rohit will help reinterpret these forms through a contemporary lens.

The workshop will invite participants to experience the adaptability and fluidity of traditional crafts, revealing how craft techniques can express modern identities and stories.

About Rohit Bhasi

Rohit is  a Bengaluru based visual artist, working under his personal brand Indigoranges. His practice is greatly driven by the storytelling practices and belief systems of the various cultures and communities around him. The human mind and body, with its myriad possibilities for beauty, creation and destruction, is a perennial source of inspiration. As with the performing arts and classical music. Looking back at the ancient through a contemporary lens is how hewould describe my work. He creates under his label Indigoranges  He undertakes commissions for murals, storybooks, editorial illustrations, digital marketing collateral etc.

Layala Chitrakar
Pattachitra Artist, Midnapore, West Bengal

A talented artist from a lineage of award-winning Patuas, Layala Chitrakar carries forward Bengal’s living tradition of painting and song. Her scrolls blend the Midnapore and Kalighat styles, using natural pigments from minerals, leaves, and flowers. Through both mythological and contemporary themes, she keeps the art form vibrant and relevant. For Craft Forward, she collaborates with Rohit Bhasi on Mud Fort Megalopolis, reinterpreting Bengaluru’s evolving story through the lens of Pattachitra.

Age 12+