Doubled Up shows a small group of sheep and lambs in long meadow grass at the edge of woodland, caught in low, warm light. Two dark-faced ewes stand among their lambs, one to the left and one to the right, with lambs gathered between and beyond them. The light comes from behind and to the left, rimming the animals' backs and the tips of the grass and opening into a warm glow at the upper left where it passes through the trees. Behind the sheep, a mass of foliage and hedgerow runs across the top of the picture in cool dark greens and blue-violet, its outer edges catching the same light. The foreground grass is worked in greens and yellows lifted with pink, standing up in tall backlit blades around the animals. The paint is applied thickly in loaded, separate strokes. The fleece of the sheep is built from decisive marks that hold their own ridges of paint, set against the flatter dark of the faces, while the grass is described in upright flicks that carry the low light. The background hedge is kept looser and darker, holding the lit animals forward in the picture.

Georgina Potter is a contemporary British landscape painter, inspired principally by changing light and working from specific places, whether seen directly or held in memory. Brushes are only part of her method: she builds texture and depth with her fingertips, palette knives and even scraps of kitchen roll when a subject calls for it. Doubled Up sits within her recurring treatment of livestock in low summer light, the ewes and their lambs grouped together at the field's edge