Inside the Ranakpur Jain temple, among its forest of carved marble pillars. Slender columns covered in fine relief, with carved bracket figures of dancers and attendants, hold up a ceiling crowned by a concentric spiralled dome. Light filters in soft and diffuse, a single distant figure standing in the haze. Sandhya Kaushik keeps the whole interior close in tone, working ivory, pale grey, cream and soft gold in broad palette-knife sweeps, so the marble seems to glow from within rather than catch direct sun.

The cool, hushed palette gives it a meditative, almost monastic stillness. It suits a meditation room, a study, or a gallery wall where a quiet, tonal piece can breathe.

• Original hand-painted acrylic on stretched canvas
• Palette-knife impasto
• 2:3 portrait
• Made to order at your chosen size
• Frame: stretched canvas, or floater (black/white/gold)
• Signed by Sandhya Kaushik
• Certificate of Authenticity