The Varanasi riverfront at first light, panoramic and warm. A tall terracotta-red gateway and a gilt shikhara anchor the right, backed by stacked ochre and cream houses; coloured umbrellas open over the ghat steps where a row of wooden boats is drawn up. To the left the city dissolves into a pale haze above the water, a single boat far out. Sandhya Kaushik builds the architecture in warm palette-knife planes of red, ochre and sandstone, then drags the wide Ganga in long blue-gold scrapes so the dawn light skitters across the surface.

The glow and the low horizon keep it calm rather than busy. The wide shape sits well above a long sofa, a console, or a sideboard where the morning warmth can carry.

• 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