🔴 Now That's What I Call Birch Painting 2023 - Acrylic on Board - 96 x 49cm

Part of the ‘à làimh Shomhairle’ Exhibition at Tolbooth, Stirling. All artwork is fully insured and will be available for collection in January 2023

https://www.somhairle.co.uk/exhibition

Available to Buy on December 2nd 2022

I like this one. It’s good. Based on a photo I took up in Relig Glen. I love this place, it is my native habitat. I have roamed these woods since childhood, I have railed down the glorious ribbons of single track on my bike, even thrown myself down the gorge’s steep flanks. Me and my Dad go walking here often and my children have played in the river and marvelled at the plentiful faeries. I found this little scene whilst following a childhood memory of a place we called the thunder pool. I remember a bunch of us clambering up the burn at Moniak one summer to go swimming. I did not find the pool so it must be further up the gorge. It is incredibly steep around here and the forest is incredibly dense, the gorge is so deep that one of the tallest conifers in Europe resides here, Dùghall Mòr.