On this composition

A painting, before the light.

A Braj street in Mathura at the height of a Holi gathering. Ochre, pink and terracotta havelis and temple shikharas line both sides; a tractor-cart in the middle carries musicians and a wide rainbow umbrella above a dense crowd in red, blue and saffron. Flags, awnings and a hazy old-city skyline close off the far end under a peach-gold sky. Sandhya Kaushik builds the buildings in warm palette-knife planes, then scatters the crowd as hundreds of quick coloured dabs, with wet foreground ground catching broken reflections.

This is the loud, joyful face of Braj. The busy mid-tones and bursts of colour hold a large living-room wall or an entryway that can take some energy.

  • 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

— Sandhya

From the Studio

Four proofs the painting is real

Pigment

Canvas

Knife

Cure