Ury Burn

Acrylic & mixed media, 25 × 30 cm

This painting carries the quiet, persistent movement of the burn itself. Horizontal bands of turquoise, teal and violet suggest flowing water and shifting banks, while vertical drips and scrapes feel like reeds, rain and reflected trees. The surface has been repeatedly worked and softened, giving the image a sense of time passing through it rather than across it.

Light appears embedded in the layers — not painted on, but glowing up through the surface — which creates the feeling of water reflecting sky and foliage at once. The result is not a literal view, but a deeply felt one: the burn as a living presence, constantly changing, never still.

There is something intimate about the scale, as if this were a private encounter with a familiar stretch of water, observed again and again in different light.