The parikrama path that circles Govardhan hill, painted in the warm hour before dark. A broad sandy road curves from the foreground into the distance, lined with figures on the walk: a woman in a marigold-orange sari, men in white, others bent low. A small terracotta-red roadside shrine with a gold dome sits mid-frame, and a vendor pushes a wooden handcart toward us while a herd of cattle rests on the right against the rust-red rock of the hill. Sandhya Kaushik lays the road in long dragged strokes of sand, ochre and pale gold, the hill in slabs of brick and burnt sienna, under a flat butter-yellow sky.

The receding road and low sun give it an unhurried, journeying mood. The horizontal pull suits a hallway, an entry, or a wide wall above a bench where the eye can follow the path.

• Original hand-painted acrylic on stretched canvas
• Palette-knife impasto
• 4:3 landscape
• Made to order at your chosen size
• Frame: stretched canvas, or floater (black/white/gold)
• Signed by Sandhya Kaushik
• Certificate of Authenticity