A witch in a flowing black dress and tall pointed hat rides an old pink bicycle along a cobbled lane, a single round orange pumpkin in the wicker basket on the handlebars. She is shown in side profile at a distance, painted loosely with no fine facial detail. The lane runs diagonally toward a small village and church steeple, past a white picket fence, flowering hedges and rose bushes, and a cottage with an arched red door, a lit lantern and glowing windows.

Golden-leaved trees arch overhead as dusk light warms the sky, and the amber glow of the cottage contrasts with the cooling evening air. Thick impasto strokes, short and choppy for foliage and flowers and longer and sweeping in the sky, leave raised paint and visible canvas grain, while haze softens the distant village.