A broad sweep of the Banaras riverfront in late-afternoon gold. The left half is dense with stacked ochre and terracotta havelis, a red arched gateway and gilt temple shikharas, with coloured awnings and small figures on the ghat steps. The river opens across the right toward a hazy skyline pricked with flags, a scatter of rowboats moving on the calm surface. Sandhya Kaushik works the buildings in compact warm palette-knife dabs, lifts the spires in gold, and drags the Ganga in long silver-and-saffron scrapes that hold broken reflections.

The contrast of crowded shore and empty water gives the piece room to breathe. It reads best over a long sofa, a dining wall, or anywhere the full width of the riverfront can stretch out.

• 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