Chand Baori at Abhaneri, one of India's deepest stepwells, painted looking down its walls. Storey after storey of crisscrossing sandstone staircases zigzag toward a small pool of deep green water at the bottom, where two tiny figures stand. A colonnaded palace pavilion runs along the top rim under a strip of clear blue sky. Sandhya Kaushik works the steps in dense palette-knife ridges of golden ochre, rust and brown, each diagonal flight a separate run of paint, so the lattice reads as solid stone in raking light.

The plunging geometry makes it a striking, almost dizzying vertical piece. It suits a stair wall, a study, or a gallery wall where the eye can fall down through it.

• Original hand-painted acrylic on stretched canvas
• Palette-knife impasto
• 2:3 portrait
• Made to order at your chosen size
• Frame: stretched canvas, or floater (black/white/gold)
• Signed by Sandhya Kaushik
• Certificate of Authenticity