Seascapes

I love to paint these little seascape paintings. I paint them with bright, jewel-like colours to banish cloudy skies. Click here to buy Small Seascape No3

I’ve been spending some time on the Lancashire coast at Lytham St Annes. The horizons are broad and dramatic. The distance from the dunes to the sea can be nearly a mile at certain times of the day, and to walk out into the vast flatness of that landscape is to feel very insignificant and small. The light was so bright and pure the scene seemed almost to vibrate. The girls are my twin daughters.

When painting this kind of landscape I find it almost essential to include a few figures within the composition, to give that sense of human smallness, otherwise the human eye has no visual clues to give reality to the scale of scene.

Sunrise is an especially magical time of day with a special stillness and a quality of the light that is totally different from a sunset.