On this composition

A painting, before the light.

Kedar Ghat, where Varanasi's North-Indian temple forms meet a tall, striped South-Indian gopuram in red and ochre. To the right, two beehive shikharas rise in burnt orange; a leafy tree breaks the skyline between them. Broad worn steps descend to the river, where two figures crouch over washing at the waterline. Sandhya Kaushik builds the towers in stacked palette-knife ridges of terracotta and rust, the steps in dragged ochre and stone-grey, and the foreground water in cool reflective scrapes.

The architecture gives it a grounded, devotional weight. It holds a study, a stair wall, or a meditation room where the temple geometry can be read slowly.

  • 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

— Sandhya

From the Studio

Four proofs the painting is real

Pigment

Canvas

Knife

Cure