Kerala Backwaters

This painting captures kerala backwaters in the warm, golden light that Sandhya Kaushik returns to again and again in her work. Built in thick impasto with palette knife strokes, the surface carries real three-dimensional texture — ridges of paint that catch light like the ancient stone of the subject itself.

The composition draws the eye through layers of warm earth tones — raw sienna, burnt umber, cadmium yellow deep — applied with the confidence of an artist who has painted these sacred places for decades. The architecture is heavy, solid, weighted by centuries. The figures, where they appear, are suggested rather than detailed — the place endures, the people pass through.

Part of the Indian Cities collection — the pulse of modern india.