Beginning of Summer

A summer afternoon, just after rain. The air washed clean and cool, the path empty — everyone driven indoors, the whole river left to you. Cool shades on the water, deep and still, where the waterlilies float and hold the eye. Flag irises bright along the bank, willows dripping overhead.

An original watercolour of a riverside walk on a summer afternoon, painted on Arches HP 100% cotton paper. A recent shower has emptied the path and freshened the air; the only company is the cool, glassy water and the lilies resting on it. The eye is drawn down into those cool blue-green shades — the quiet heart of the scene — while the warm green banks and a clearing sky hold it all in the hushed, rain-rinsed calm of early summer.