River Through the Glen

The weight of the cloud — a low slate ceiling pressing down on the valley while the grasses below kept their green. The cottage barely there; the river doing the work of leading you in.

An original watercolour of a river running through a broad British glen, on 100% cellulose paper. The kind of valley repeated across the upland north — Scottish glens, the Lake District’s deeper dales, the Pennine watersheds — where a single white cottage and a thread of water are often the only marks on a great length of grazing fell. Heavy weather doing the framing; the river the only true line through the scene.