Øksendal, Norway

The height of Norwegian autumn — those red cabins built to be seen at exactly this distance, against exactly this colour of birch. The mountains hold quietly in the back.

An original watercolour of an Øksendal hytte in autumn, on Arches HP 100% cotton. The valley runs inland from the Norwegian fjord country south of Trondheim — birch-and-pine slopes, working farms, the small red wooden cabins (hytter) that punctuate the Scandinavian landscape. The turf roof, the birches gone gold, the mountains held softly back: a single composition every Norwegian autumn writes a thousand variations on.