Who'd have thought rangoli would make spiritual art? Artists Bharati Mate and Sunil Balkawade, that's who. The duo's Rangavali dry fresco paintings will be on show at Jehangir Art Gallery till August 16. Bharati Mate talks about her art:

The Ajanta inspiration

I have been making rangolis at home since childhood working on new designs everyday. Later Sunil and I started of thinking of ways to preserve the designs. These frescoes are inspired by the ones at Ajanta, where the paintings have been made on stone after plastering them.

The designs are made permanent by using a mixed media of acrylic paints, rangoli colours and other media. This is also how the rangolis are represented vertically on canvas.u00a0