This is an original watercolour painting by Amanda Farquharson of Spencer Creek, which runs through her town of Dundas, Ontario. Based off of an image taken by her husband in September 2025, Amanda spent many hours carefully drawing out the painting with pencil then painting it little by little over the months into early 2026. The painting is 8.75 × 11.75 inches, and each square inch takes about an hour - so around 100 hours of painting with a tiny brush! Over all but the last few tiny details of the painting, the whites you see are the warm white of the paper, preserved and glowing through. Every tiny detail was painted with love and care, and this is one of those artworks that you can gaze at for a long time and keep seeing new paint passages and reflections.
Amanda is often drawn to how rock and water interplay with each other - water seems to move around rocks but over time the rocks are slowly eroding and being shaped by the water. It’s a beautiful and endless process, captured here in one sparkling moment with all the transient loveliness of the first falling leaves and sunlight shining through the trees.
This is an original watercolour painting by Amanda Farquharson of Spencer Creek, which runs through her town of Dundas, Ontario. Based off of an image taken by her husband in September 2025, Amanda spent many hours carefully drawing out the painting with pencil then painting it little by little over the months into early 2026. The painting is 8.75 × 11.75 inches, and each square inch takes about an hour - so around 100 hours of painting with a tiny brush! Over all but the last few tiny details of the painting, the whites you see are the warm white of the paper, preserved and glowing through. Every tiny detail was painted with love and care, and this is one of those artworks that you can gaze at for a long time and keep seeing new paint passages and reflections.
Amanda is often drawn to how rock and water interplay with each other - water seems to move around rocks but over time the rocks are slowly eroding and being shaped by the water. It’s a beautiful and endless process, captured here in one sparkling moment with all the transient loveliness of the first falling leaves and sunlight shining through the trees.
