I’ve just returned from a lovely
break in South West Wales with my wife, Diane and our son, Isaac (I say ‘break’
in the loosest sense of the word, as holidays with a lively four year old are
not exactly relaxing if I’m honest, but still lots of fun on the whole). We
found ourselves in a caravan atop a hill overlooking the sea at Little Haven, a
really beautiful, unspoilt stretch of coastline with some breathtaking cliffs
and long, sandy beaches and wildlife.
Strangely sitting silently each day and night in
the sea were some enormous oil tankers, forever in view and scattered across
the horizon. There were up to ten sat there on somedays serving the nearby
refinery at Milford Haven, which is located here because of the unusually deep
waters so the tankers can get close. I
found them quite ominous looking, and couldn’t help but feel drawn to staring
at them. I made several sketches on my i-pad during the week that featured them
sitting dumbly, unblinkingly in the dazzling,
sparklng sea. I made these last two one evening, wandering down to a
nearby lookout to paint as the sun went down.
They were both completed very fast in just half
an hour, showing just how fast the light changes as the sun went slinking away
below the horizon. Each painting contains several different recorded times
captured in just the one image, something that you could only really do in
painting.
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