About us

The Tribal Story  (A Unit of Ampas Art Gallery) is an exclusive portal to bring to prominance the Folk & Tribal Arts of India.

Ous is a vast heritage with numerous art forms continuing over centuries.

Our indigenous arts  give us  glimpses of bygone times, taking us back, sometimes perhaps, to the beginning of humanity itself. Early humans instinctively rose to illustration, and hence documentation with numerous cave paintings around the globe. These aew windows to our past culture and tradition.

Earthy brown and rice white, the  Warli tradition and it’s examples we showcase bring to life serpentine circular patterns representing the tribal dance which in turn represents the circle of life; the cryptic circles signifying the Sun and the Moon and the triangles the trees and the mountains, scenes of primal life and earthy exuberance.

Where these forms come alive on walls, the Bengal Patas string stories together on old fabrics with paper patas pasted on them alive with scenes resurrected images created with natural dyes from various trees, leaves, fruits, flowers, seeds and clay. These mystic stories relive our mythology and in the same media themes of Feminism and Global warming reflect and challenge modern times and trials.

Be it the vivid detailed colourful depictions of everyday existence in Mahubani styles; Or the mystery and vibrancy of the intricately dotted Gond Jungle themes, or the curving details of the fixed palette Kerala Murals, all these histories and humanities compliment and collide, mystifying and vying, as we wonder and marvel at our heritage and are  spellbound and oblivious of all else as we immerse in our Indigenous artforms. histories and lifescapes through hundreds of years of visual art traditions.

We aspire to promote thses arts and crafts and create more awareness and visual recognision for these treasures. By investing in these artforms we give these ageold traditions a chance at thriving yet again in a time when most of then are close going extinct.