Jaisalmer Fort, the Sonar Quila or Golden Fort, lifting out of the Thar desert in Rajasthan. The honey-gold sandstone city stacks along a low ridge, bastions and havelis catching the warm dusk light, a single flag of red over the walls. Across the sandy foreground a small caravan moves, two camels and their figures in dark silhouette, with thin streaks of teal where shallow water mirrors the sky. Sandhya Kaushik builds the fort in warm palette-knife blocks of honey, ochre and sienna and drags the desert floor in long gold and lilac strokes under a soft peach sky.

The glowing stone against the open desert makes it a warm, expansive piece. It reads well over a sofa, a bed, or a dining wall that wants light and distance.

• 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