Lookbook · Volume one

Six places, three homes, one studio.

Lorem ipsum — an editorial of the work in the world. Photographed in Delhi, Mumbai, Bengaluru, and on the parikrama path itself. Painted in Faridabad.

Chapter I

First light, before the parikrama

— Photographed near Govardhan, 4:42 am

Govardhan at first light. The hill is small; the walk is large.

Varanasi ghats — Dashashwamedh, the first lamps before sunrise.

Vermilion is the colour I want; ochre is the colour I get.

— Sandhya, on the easel for Govardhan at First Light

Chapter II

The parikrama, walked at dawn

— Photographed barefoot, May 2026

Painting on parikrama path — The path, before the seven kilometres begin.

Char Dham route — The road to Badrinath, the blue gate before the rains.

Jaisalmer fort walls — Jaisalmer, where the fort is one colour for one hour.

Chapter III

Three Indian homes, three lights

— Delhi, Mumbai, Bengaluru · 2026

Delhi home — Delhi · Vasant Vihar

Varanasi over the jaali console

Lorem — the painting is the first thing one sees on entering. The vermilion meets the jaali shadow at the same hour every afternoon.

Mumbai home — Mumbai · Bandra

Amber, on the stair-light wall

Lorem — a wall the family had been waiting to fill for nine years. The painting is the size of the wall, exactly.

Bengaluru home — Bengaluru · Indiranagar

Govardhan above a low Indian sideboard

Lorem — the customer asked for the parikrama at first light. The painting was begun on a Tuesday, signed eight Tuesdays later.

Chapter IV

Tuesdays at the easel

— Faridabad studio, north-light hours

Sandhya at the easel mid-stroke — Mid-stroke, the knife loaded with vermilion. Six layers; this is layer three.

Studio bench, palette knives — The bench, where the colours wait between layers.

Linen on stretcher bars — Belgian linen, stretched on kiln-dried pine, primed in lead-free oil ground.

North-light hours — North-light, six hours a day, six weeks to a painting.

Painting on the easel this month — On the easel this month — Lorem Ipsum on the Parikrama, 36 × 48 in.

A note — from the studio

On photographing what is hand-painted

Lorem ipsum — the photographs in this lookbook are of the paintings, not of the people who own them. Three of the homes are not photographed in full, on request. The Bandra wall belongs to a family who asked that the painting be photographed alone; we honoured that.

See the compositions in the catalogue [catalogue.html]

Lorem — write to Sandhya. She replies herself.

Lorem — Mon to Sat, before the afternoon light goes.

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