The Garhwal Himalaya seen wide and high above Kedarnath. A long wall of snow-capped peaks fills the upper canvas in white and slate blue-grey, one summit catching a fleck of gold; below them a brown ochre ridge carries the small grey stone temple alone, with a few low shelters. The foreground opens into an autumn meadow of olive and straw-gold grass threaded with meltwater, where tiny pilgrim figures cross toward the shrine. Sandhya Kaushik loads the snow in thick palette-knife slabs of white and cool grey, then drags the meadow in short ochre and umber strokes so the grass catches a low light.

Scale is the subject here, calm and severe rather than pretty. The cool, expansive view opens up a living-room feature wall, a study, or a wide space above a long sofa.

• Original hand-painted acrylic on stretched canvas
• Palette-knife impasto
• 21:9 panoramic landscape
• Made to order at your chosen size
• Frame: stretched canvas, or floater (black/white/gold)
• Signed by Sandhya Kaushik
• Certificate of Authenticity