People's art in India does not wait for a canvas or paints made in a factory. Rock faces and caves, a village wall, the floor, a threshold, a palm-leaf, a piece of wood, or even the palm of a hand is space enough. For colors, the infinite hues proveded by Nature from flowers, leaves stones and even cowdung or soot collected from inside a chimney adequately fill the artist's palette. The instinctive urge to honour nature and avoid polluting it allows people with traditional wisdom to experiment with any natural resource they find around them. Even when they move to chemically produced pigments and consequently brighten their expressions, the images, stories, motifs and local indentities remain true to their known cultural understanding.
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