De Narrow Zawn is a tiny inlet in Cornwall’s “tin coast“, a World Heritage site littered with the ruins of old mines for tin, arsenic and copper. In fact, it’s at Botallack, which is probably the best known Cornish tin mining site. If you were…
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In the main post for this painting, I mentioned the dramatic stacking effect of the waves. It brought to mind some half-remembered words concerning a fearsome ninth wave: Wave after wave, each mightier than the last, Till last, a ninth one, gathering half the deep…
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Looking out to sea from the stoney beach at Winspit in the Isle of Purbeck in Dorset, the tide creates foam-crested eddies around the rocks. Purbeck Eddies Oil on canvas, 50 x 40 cm £250