Whenever we go down to Cornwall, we stay in a little B&B in St Ives, and these two pictures are the view from the window of its tiny little top floor room. We get up really early when we’re down there, and although the sunrise is dramatised in this painting, in the morning the light does unfold in a quite wonderful way across the rooftops.
Sunrise is a large painting which I hope works on two levels. At a distance you get this incredible blast of morning light, rolling in like a wave and casting its shadows. And then when you stand in front of the picture you can focus on the tiny details, like the windows in St Ives church. Right at the front of the picture you have net curtains being drawn - the lights have gone on in the house.
Whenever we go down to Cornwall, we stay in a little B&B in St Ives, and these two pictures are the view from the window of its tiny little top floor room. We get up really early when we’re down there, and although the sunrise is dramatised in this painting, in the morning the light does unfold in a quite wonderful way across the rooftops.
Sunrise is a large painting which I hope works on two levels. At a distance you get this incredible blast of morning light, rolling in like a wave and casting its shadows. And then when you stand in front of the picture you can focus on the tiny details, like the windows in St Ives church. Right at the front of the picture you have net curtains being drawn - the lights have gone on in the house.