The waterfront stacked up the hillside in ochre, rose and pale green, with cypresses punctuating it and wooden boats moored along the front. Sandhya Kaushik keeps the buildings as flat knife-laid planes with no drawn windows, and puts the mountains across the lake in one thin cool pass so the town stays forward.

Warm, European and easy to live with — the piece in the international group that sits closest to her Indian work in palette. This is one of four paintings Sandhya made of this subject — the light, the weather and the arrangement of the elements differ in each, and no two are the same picture.

• 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