About Indigofera

Indigofera is founded by Ridhima and Revati Gulati in New Delhi, to exhibit India’s living painting traditions and place them with the people who will live with them.

We want India’s artistic traditions experienced as contemporary cultural treasures — never as disappearing crafts.

Ridhima and Revati Gulati, founders of Indigofera

How it started

Indigofera began with a question that wouldn’t go away: why does art this alive sit mostly in museums and history books, when it belongs just as naturally in homes and conversations?

We — Ridhima and Revati Gulati — grew up around Indian art, and came to this work the slow way: learning from artists, visiting their communities, sitting with traditions that families have held for generations. The closer we looked, the clearer it became that every painting carried more than its image. A song. A ritual. A place. A name.

Indigofera is how we pass that on. We curate works that honour the craft, and we keep the people behind them in the foreground — so that a painting bought here brings its whole story home.

Ridhima GulatiCo-Founder Revati GulatiCo-Founder
A Gond tree-of-life painting

Still being painted

Gond, Bhil, Warli, Pichwai, Pattachitra — each of these traditions is practised today, by master painters and by newcomers finding their own hand inside an old vocabulary.

India’s tribal traditions hold some of the world’s oldest surviving visual languages — worldviews in which every tree, river and animal has life and spirit. Every work here carries generations of that knowledge and craftsmanship.

We work closely with the artists to keep the stories, communities and contexts at the centre. When this art is collected, exhibited and talked about, the families who make it can keep making it — with dignity, visibility and patronage.

Through exhibitions, publications, partnerships and education, we’re working toward exactly that future.