Red Roofs Across the Lake
A 2022 watercolour on paper, square in format at 20 by 20 inches, depicting a guesthouse with a red roof whose reflection settles into the still surface of a lake below. Behind the building, a hillside of conifers in autumn colour rises to fill the upper portion of the composition, the warm tones of the season pressing down toward the cooler water. The square format suits the subject well, holding the reflection in close relation to the structure above it and giving the scene a self-contained, meditative quality that watercolour, with its translucency and soft edges, is particularly well placed to convey.