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Indian rituals and customs have deep connections with painting traditions. The Rajasthani school of painting developed from the interweaving of many such cultural practices. Indian art has been majorly inspired by Hindu mythology, local folklore and other religious and secular texts. The Rajasthani painting tradition incorporated these local traditions, and the ideas of ruling patrons. This split the Rajasthani painting tradition into various sub-schools such as Bikaner, Bundi, Marwar, and Mewar to name a few. Each of these painting traditions developed between the 16th and 19th centuries.

Shiv Swami is a descendant of a family of several generations of miniature painters from Bikaner in Rajasthan, India. He specializes in Traditional and contemporary figurative and botanical subjects. He undertook miniature art's study under the guidance of his grandfather and his father Sh. Devkishan Swami. He also underwent rigorous study on figurative art and Botanical Paintings with great artists like Mahaveer Swami and Raju Swami, respectively. He has held exhibitions and workshops in Jaipur, Bikaner and Delhi,pondicherry,England,Luxembourg and most recently in France For two consecutive years (2023,2024)his work can be found in private collections in the United states,Germany,Italy, Australia,Canada and Belgium.he has held the world record for the world's most smallest miniature painting.

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