Hailing from a village in the state of Maharashtra, the artist Anil Chaitya Vangad has been in the field of painting for the past seventeen years. The popular motifs of Warli paintings like Gods, Goddesses, wedding affairs, tarpa dance, to name a few, come alive in the paintings done by Vangad. The indigenous art is all about oral traditions where folktales and myth gain major attention for the artists. Vangad gaining tradition knowledge about his art practice from his mother deploys tradition mediums of gerue, rice paste, and charcoal and cow dung along with contemporary material like synthetic paints and dyes.
