On this composition

A painting, before the light.

Jaipur's Jantar Mantar observatory in late light. The huge Samrat Yantra, the world's largest stone sundial, drives its golden ramp diagonally across the centre, flanked by curved masonry instruments, a circular dial in the lower left and other angular structures. Tiny figures cross the courtyard for scale, and a band of coloured market stalls and houses in red, blue and green closes the far side under a peach-lilac sky. Sandhya Kaushik builds the instruments in broad ochre and gold palette-knife planes with deep shadowed cuts, keeping the architecture geometric against the looser, brighter market.

The clean geometry makes it an unusual, architectural square. It suits a study, a home office, or a living-room wall that likes structure and warm stone.

  • 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

— Sandhya

From the Studio

Four proofs the painting is real

Pigment

Canvas

Knife

Cure