On the Trail, Nepal

Two figures so small you almost miss them, but everything in the painting is built around their walk. Dark valley walls, red shrubs doing the unexpected work of holding the warmth, a snow peak rising in the cloud beyond.

An original watercolour of a Himalayan trekking trail in autumn, on Arches Rough 100% cotton. The kind of scale only the Nepalese mountains offer — sheer valley faces dropping into shadow, snow-capped peaks emerging from cloud thousands of metres above, the trail itself a thin line tracing through it all. Two trekkers for scale; the painting is the country.