Welcome to the beautiful world of Folk Art and Decorative Painting and thank you for visiting this website.

Please relax and take your sweet time to view the artwork in the boutique page, pattern packets of all these art pieces are also available. If you want to purchase the art pieces or the pattern packets, please don't hesitate to enquire about the prices.

Check out the Art Courses Page and learn more about the ongoing Decorative painting classes for adults as well as juniors at Shivali's studio "Folk Art Cottage" and "Creative Hands" at Takashimaya.

Hope you find something of your interest here.

What is Decorative painting?

Decorative painting is an expression of joy. Just like oil and watercolor painting, it’s and artistic expression achieved with oil as well as acrylic paints on literally any surface – paper, wood, metal, plastic, glass, fabric, ceramic etc.

Systematic and step-by-step approach of teaching makes contemporary decorative painting a highly teachable art form, which is easy to learn and requires no previous experience or academic training and drawing skills. Through the discipline in practice and a desire to learn, even those who claim a total lack of creativity can do wonders.

The scope of contemporary decorative painting is boundless, incorporating styles and techniques of the past, adapting these to the trends and materials of the present, while at the same time developing decorative art heritage of the future.

Tole painting is the term that has been used historically for decorative painting on tin surfaces, especially in New England and by the Pennsylvania Germans.

Today, in addition to tole painting and folk art styles of many countries such as Norway, Sweden, Germany, Russia, England and Mexico, contemporary decorative painting includes facets of Early American Decorative Painting such as stenciling, bronzing, gold leafing, country painting and graining.