Gaumukh, where the Ganga is born from the Gangotri glacier. A great blue-white ice cave fills the centre, its cracked snout glowing aqua in the shadow, and turquoise-green meltwater rushes out and tumbles over a chaos of ochre, rust and grey boulders. Snow peaks press behind under a pale, cold sky, and two tiny trekker figures on the rock at right give the scale. Sandhya Kaushik loads the ice in heavy white and pale-blue palette-knife slabs, churns the river in green and white scrapes, and breaks the moraine into angular planes of brown and slate.

The cold colour and raw rock make it elemental rather than soft. It carries a study, a living-room wall, or a stair landing that can take a bracing, high-altitude image.

• Original hand-painted acrylic on stretched canvas
• Palette-knife impasto
• 1:1 square
• Made to order at your chosen size
• Frame: stretched canvas, or floater (black/white/gold)
• Signed by Sandhya Kaushik
• Certificate of Authenticity