Craigievar Castle

Acrylic on paper
20 × 20 cm

Craigievar Castle appears here not as an architectural monument but as a glowing presence within its landscape. The famous pink tower rises from deep blues and greens, emerging as if remembered rather than observed. It feels suspended between visibility and disappearance, half-revealed through layers of shifting colour.

The surrounding fields and trees are rendered in loose, gestural strokes, dissolving the boundary between land, air and structure. This softening of edges allows the castle to become almost dreamlike — a symbol of Scottish history filtered through personal memory and atmosphere rather than fixed detail.

Subtle dark marks suggest windows and doorways, anchoring the building just enough to keep it recognisable, while the luminous pink surface gives it an inner warmth, as though lit from within. The painting conveys not the grandeur of the site, but its quiet, emotional resonance — a place encountered as much inwardly as in the physical world.