Original ink painting on canvas board
30 x 40 cm | Black calligraphy ink on canvas board
Unframed | Includes Certificate of Authenticity
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A contemplative ink painting inspired by a walk to the summit of Creag Bheag, the hill that looks out over Kingussie in the Scottish Highlands. Near the top, almost at the exposed peak, a solitary silver birch grows in a place it has no business growing. Wind-battered and unlikely, it has somehow endured, and it stayed with me long after the walk was over.
There is something in that tree that feels connected to a broader thread running through my practice: the idea that adaptation is not a compromise but a form of strength. Growing differently is not growing wrongly. That connection between the particular shapes trees make as they respond to their environment and the experience of living with chronic pain and a body that has had to find its own way of moving through the world feels central to what this painting is about, even when it is not saying so directly.
Creag Bheag was made using calligraphy ink on canvas board, with energetic, textural marks in the foreground giving way to quieter, more restrained handling towards the summit and sky. The silver birch itself is built up in diluted washes, kept deliberately pale and almost translucent, to hold the ghostly, reflective quality it had in person. The distant plateau is suggested through light and shadow rather than defined detail, preserving the sense of scale and stillness that the Highland landscape carries.
This is a one-of-a-kind original work, painted in black calligraphy ink on canvas board, 30 x 40cm.
Original ink painting on canvas board
30 x 40 cm | Black calligraphy ink on canvas board
Unframed | Includes Certificate of Authenticity
Free UK shipping
A contemplative ink painting inspired by a walk to the summit of Creag Bheag, the hill that looks out over Kingussie in the Scottish Highlands. Near the top, almost at the exposed peak, a solitary silver birch grows in a place it has no business growing. Wind-battered and unlikely, it has somehow endured, and it stayed with me long after the walk was over.
There is something in that tree that feels connected to a broader thread running through my practice: the idea that adaptation is not a compromise but a form of strength. Growing differently is not growing wrongly. That connection between the particular shapes trees make as they respond to their environment and the experience of living with chronic pain and a body that has had to find its own way of moving through the world feels central to what this painting is about, even when it is not saying so directly.
Creag Bheag was made using calligraphy ink on canvas board, with energetic, textural marks in the foreground giving way to quieter, more restrained handling towards the summit and sky. The silver birch itself is built up in diluted washes, kept deliberately pale and almost translucent, to hold the ghostly, reflective quality it had in person. The distant plateau is suggested through light and shadow rather than defined detail, preserving the sense of scale and stillness that the Highland landscape carries.
This is a one-of-a-kind original work, painted in black calligraphy ink on canvas board, 30 x 40cm.
Size: 30 x 40 cm (12 x 16 in).
Medium: Black calligraphy ink on canvas board.
Original work, signed and dated on reverse.
Ships flat in protective, eco-friendly packaging.
Includes a hand-signed Certificate of Authenticity.
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