The Jagannath Temple at Puri, the eastern Char Dham on the Odisha coast, at first light. Its tall curvilinear shikhara climbs in weathered grey-brown and umber stone, crowned by the wheel and a fluttering flag; smaller subsidiary shrines cluster at its base. Pilgrims in saffron, white and red gather below among the bright canopies of a temple bazaar. Sandhya Kaushik builds the great tower in dense palette-knife slabs of stone-grey and ochre, then sets it against a flat peach and rose sky, with quick warm dabs for the crowd and the umbrellas.

The towering, time-worn temple gives the piece a grounded, pilgrim-route weight. It holds a stairwell, an entry, or a study wall that wants a strong vertical.

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