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I can’t entirely remember, but I believe this A2 drawing was started while the sun was setting up on the cliffs looking westward across our nearest beach, Porthtowan. It was then completed back in the studio. I often start with willow charcoal with its subtle smokey greys, and then overdraw with the rich darker greys and blacks of compressed charcoal. In this drawing, I worked the other way around.

There’s something about making many drawings of the same view point over a period of time. Claude Monet painted over 30 paintings of haystacks in a field near his home at Giverny around 1890.

So far I’ve not tired of the profile of the receding cliffs with the single mining chimney on the horizon. The image, in fact, is now etched on my mind.