A shallow river turns through the centre of Winding River, entering at the lower foreground and curving back towards a screen of trees in the middle distance. Its surface holds broken reflections of blue sky and green bankside growth, set down in short vertical and horizontal marks of pale blue, lilac and green. On the left, a tall tree in full summer leaf rises almost the height of the picture, its canopy worked in layered greens with gaps of sky showing through, its trunk and the darker foliage beneath it running down to the water's edge. To the right, a green meadow slopes gently away, with what read as grazing sheep gathered near a line of trees and hedgerow in the mid-distance.

Georgina Potter is a contemporary British landscape painter based in Wiltshire who works predominantly en plein air in oils, citing the British mid-century painters Alfred Munnings and Edward Seago among her influences. Much of her subject matter is drawn from the countryside close to her Wiltshire home, with rivers, meadows and mature trees among the motifs she returns to, though she also paints abroad. A riverside subject of this kind, with a single dominant tree, open water and grazing land beneath a summer sky, sits within her wider treatment of the British rural landscape and its seasonal light