The sea has pulled out after a stormy night leaving seaweed strewn among small rocks and pebbles across the sand. On the shore little pools of water and wet sand reflect low pink tinged cloud that is blowing out with the tide. The sky is fresh and promises a beautiful day. 

The Morning After

Lit by a strange yellow light the clouds loom and swirl over the cliff which, slicked with blues and purples seems charged with electricity.  The wet rock-face reflects back the errie light before the storm.







Hovering Storm, Polzeath

In the lower part of the painting a bright elliptical pool of seawater is framed by wet sand. In the bottom right of the painting is a darker patch of sand or soil created by the artist with powdered charcoal and grit. Hanging above is an eerie orange cloud, illuminated on the right by a bright sky and in the shade of a ominous cloud threatening to engulf the scene from the left. 



Jurassic Light, Dorset

A bay of bright water at high tide under a winter sky of a blue so light it is almost white, contrasting heavily with the volcanic headland and rocky shore rendered in a mixture of oil paint and charcoal. The smallest hints of pink in the sky are reflected in pools between strewn rocks and boulders 

Los Silos 1

Early morning sky over a bright sea as waves tumble over each other in a race to the sandy shore. At the foreground the rocks are tinged a pinky brown by the dawn light shining through the pink clouds in the otherwise blue sky 

Sennen Dawn

Looking south across the wide sandy beach of Widemouth Bay towards the sandstone headland. In the foreground seaweed sways in the soft wavelets of the shallow water through which the colours of the sand is visible.

Soft shore, Widemouth

The sea swells vigorously in the foreground of the painting, in the mid ground surf is about to break on a large wave that is sucking the wave that went before into its undertow. Above a dark storm-cloud is lit by a hidden moon.  

Sennen  Night Surf (Print available) 

A glittering sea under a blue summer sky and candy clouds. Sparkling waves reach the shore along an empty stretch of the coastline 

From the coast-path, Perranuthnoe to Marazion

This piece shows the turning of the tide between two dark headlands as storm clouds roll away to the right and a clear sky brightens the shallow water in the inlet. In aftermath of the storm tide rocks and sand are cluttered with stones and tangled strands of seaweed.  

Highland Storm Clearing

My sketchbooks crinkle with sea-mixed watercolour. 

Back in my studio, a pebble in my pocket for memory, pigments cast sea-spells: glazes ebb and flow as shore lines are lost and found, brush and knife conjure the rush of sea, shift of sand, scud of cloud and rough of rock.

Sea