Hartland
Hartland
I have been painting at Hartland since the mid 1970’s, but I remember clearly, that first mind-blowing experience of coming down the hill to Hartland Quay, standing on the cliff edge and looking along the coast. It was a stormy day and as I watched the great solid mass of water hitting the coastline with such violence and fragmenting on the rocks, I knew that this would provide the springboard for powerful new paintings. I have often produced a series of paintings working from the same spot at different times of day and seasons of the year and with each canvas, the light, the stages of the tide, the forces of the wind whipping up the waves, gives a rich variation of energy, colour and texture.