Murud-Janjira, the island sea fort off the Maharashtra coast, ringed entirely by water. Its rounded ochre and brown stone ramparts and bastions rise straight out of the Arabian Sea, broken by a tall arched gateway. In the foreground, wooden fishing boats drift on the swell, one with an orange cover and a standing boatman, and the dark prow of a nearer boat noses into the very bottom of the frame. Small sailboats catch the light to the left. Sandhya Kaushik builds the fort walls in heavy palette-knife slabs of ochre and umber and drags the sea in slate-blue scrapes laced with rust and gold reflections under a cream-peach sky.

The fort floating on open water gives the piece an isolated, maritime calm. It suits a living-room wall, a study, or a hallway that wants sea air and history.

• 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