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Lookbook

Morning light in the gallery

The two front rooms, the courtyard workshop and the night of an opening, photographed over one week as a new show was hung.

01Rue Romain Rolland, Puducherry · Since 1991

04Bring your painting, choose its frame.

05Monsoon over the Grand Canal · Oil on canvas · 90 × 120 cm · Revathi Anand

06Fishing boats at Vaithikuppam · Acrylic on canvas · 60 × 75 cm · Selvam K.

07Courtyard at noon, White Town · Watercolour on paper · 38 × 56 cm · framed

08Threshold, a kolam study · Rice paste and ink · 50 × 50 cm

09Yellow walls, Rue Dumas · Giclée print · edition of 50 · signed

10Tide line, Serenity Beach · Giclée print · edition of 40 · 50 × 70 cm

11Kolam linocut, set of three · Hand-pulled linocuts · 30 × 30 cm each

12Puducherry street map etching · Intaglio print · edition of 25 · 1930s plan

13Teak floater frame · For canvas up to 90 × 120 cm · made to size

14Gilt fillet museum frame · Gold fillet · cotton rag mount

15Shadow box for textiles · Deep box · linen backing · for textiles

16Plain black gallery frame · Ayous wood · 2 cm profile · white mount

Two rooms of paintings, and a workshop that smells of teak.

The front rooms of an old Tamil house on Rue Romain Rolland hold the paintings. In the back courtyard, Joseph and two framers cut, join and finish every frame by hand, and nothing is hung until it has been seen in morning light.

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Be at the next opening.

A WhatsApp note before each new show, with the artists and the date. Openings are on Friday evenings.