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Forter Castle, Glen Island
Mixed media on board, 25 × 30 cm

This work reduces Forter Castle to a pale, almost cut-out presence embedded within a densely worked field of colour and printed fragments. The architecture is lightly drawn and deliberately fragile, set against a saturated band of cobalt and violet that suggests both distance and emotional depth rather than literal landscape.

Below, layers of collage, pattern and translucent paint form a rhythmic, patch-like surface that reads as cultivated land, memory and surface history at once. The intense yellows, reds and greens create a heightened, almost musical register, allowing colour to carry the structure of the painting more than perspective.

The image hovers between place and invention — a recognisable landmark held within a painterly improvisation where surface, colour and process become as important as the subject itself.