GOVARDHAN AT FIRST LIGHTOn this composition
A small hill, before the sun — the parikrama path quiet under bare feet.
Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet — Govardhan at first light is the painting Sandhya keeps returning to. Begun in May, on a Tuesday at the easel, after a morning walk on the parikrama path. The vermilion is ground in Sangli; the linen comes from Belgium and is stretched by hand in Faridabad. Six layers of impasto, knife-built, drying north-light for the better part of six weeks.
Lorem ipsum — consectetur adipiscing elit. The composition is yours to scale: 24 × 30, 30 × 40, 36 × 48, or larger. Each painting begins only after a customer chooses, and is signed once.
— Sandhya, on the parikrama path
In three Indian homes
How the painting lives on a wall
Photographed in Delhi · Mumbai · Bengaluru — three homes, three lights
From the Studio
Four proofs the painting is real
Pigment
Lorem — ground vermilion from Sangli, kumkum-red.
Linen
Lorem — Belgian linen, hand-stretched in Faridabad.
Knife
Lorem — palette knife, impasto build, six layers.
Cure
Lorem — six weeks at the easel, drying north-light.
Specification
The painting, in plain words
Lorem ipsum — everything you would ask the studio over WhatsApp. Sandhya replies to anything not answered below; the studio replies before the afternoon light goes.
Ask Sandhya a question- Substrate
- Belgian linen, hand-primed in lead-free oil ground
- Medium
- Oil — palette-knife impasto, six layers
- Default size
- 30 × 40 in · other sizes priced on selection
- Finish
- Stretched on kiln-dried pine · floater frame on request
- Lead time
- Six weeks at the easel · Tuesday updates by WhatsApp
- Dispatch
- White-glove within India · rolled tube internationally
- Authenticity
- Certificate hand-signed and numbered, with Sandhya’s seal
- Tax
- Inclusive of 5% GST (HSN 9701, original paintings)
- Returns
- Commissioned work — not returnable. Sketch approval before brush.
A note from the artist
Lorem — on returning to Govardhan
Lorem ipsum dolor sit amet, consectetur adipiscing elit. The hill is small, the painting is small to begin with — it is the parikrama, the walk around, that makes it large. Each Govardhan I paint is a separate Tuesday at the easel; no two are the same hand.
— Sandhya, Faridabad
Read her full lineage
Or have her paint something only yours
A composition for your wall, not anyone’s
Lorem ipsum — a Govardhan as you remember it, a Varanasi where your grandfather lived, a Char Dham that took you somewhere. The studio paints to memory as readily as to catalogue.
Lorem — write to Sandhya. She replies herself.
Lorem — Mon to Sat, before the afternoon light goes.
WhatsApp SandhyaOr write — studio@artbysandhya.com