Leh Palace rising over the old town of Ladakh. The tall nine-storey palace, built in the Tibetan style, climbs a reddish rock ridge in ochre and earth-brown, with the stacked mud-brick houses of the town clustered below it. Strings of prayer flags in red, blue, yellow, green and white run across the foreground rooftops, loose and fluttering. Behind, the olive and grey Ladakh mountains roll back to a few snow peaks, threaded by a thin blue river. Sandhya Kaushik works the palace and houses in warm palette-knife blocks and flicks the prayer flags in with bright knife dabs against a soft lavender-cream sky.

The bright flags against the earth tones and bare mountains give the piece a high-altitude clarity. It suits a living-room wall, a study, or a gallery grouping with a sense of place.

• 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