Landscapes with trees along the picturesque banks of streams receding into the depths were Klemenčič’s favourite motifs and he repeated them in all seasons. In this picture he depicted a stream in wintertime with a snowy bank in dirty white, with green and violet tree trunks and brown bushes along the bank. The reflections on the water in the foreground and the silhouettes of trees on the high horizon are painted in bluish tones.

The painting dates from the time when the artist was torn between Ljubljana and Bohinj (1928 –1943), and this period, in addition to a softer style of painting, is also characterized by a restless and fragmented brushstroke and painting with a spatula with thick layers of paint that create a crusty surface. All of this is characteristic of the painting The Mali graben Brook in Winter, which brought the painter close to the Slovene impressionists in both technique and colour, especially with bluish and ochre shades in snowy whiteness.