Clyne River 2025

This depiction of the Clyne River employs a vibrant, almost dissonant palette to capture the dense woodland character of a valley once marked by industry. Striking verticals of reddish-orange trees frame the vivid teal water, their reflections fracturing across its surface. The light, filtered through an unseen canopy, creates an effect of enclosed intensity.

The work’s bold colour choices and stylised forms recall early 20th-century Fauvist landscapes, yet are grounded in the specific topography of Clyne Valley. Foreground foliage in deeper russets anchors the composition, drawing the eye towards a brighter, ambiguous horizon. It is a landscape reimagined, where the memory of its industrial past—coal and iron ore—yields to the resurgent vibrancy of the natural world, rendered with a graphic and compelling energy.