The Warli tribe live mainly in the Thane District, 150 km north of Bombay. They are mainly subsistence farmers who are very independent and guided in their way of life by their own system of religious belief. Their Gods are very rarely represented because they generally manifest in human, animal, inorganic or vegetal forms.

The Warli style is defined by the use of two inverted and balanced triangles are used to represent the human body. Only two colours are used, brown (used in their clay huts) for the background and white (in the past obtained with rice powder) for the painted forms. This minimal use of colour, enhances the meticulous pictography that transcribes their everyday life activities. Every painting is rhythmic, its incessant movement mirroring reality.