Remembering Ketut Madra
Known around the world as a painter of Balinese legends and folktales, Ketut Madra (1940-2021) was also a story teller, masked dancer at religious festivals, rebab player in gamelan orchestras, and creator of one of Ubud’s earliest home-stays. He is best remembered near his home in Banjar Kalah, Peliatan, as a gentle, humorous, caring, and diligent father, brother, husband, and neighbor.

(Photo: Anggara Mahendra)
This web site recalls highlights of his life and work and includes photos of his paintings in collections in Europe and the United States as well as the Gallery at the Madra Homestay, which also features work by his son, I Madé Berata, who teaches wayang painting at the Institute for the Arts in Denpasar.

At the top of this page in a detail from another Madra painting, the Demon King Rawana, abductor of Dewi Sita, challenges his own brother Wibisana; Rama, husband of Sita; and Laksmana, Rama’s brother (left to ight), to the final battle in their long campaign to rescue Sita.