Foggy Evening, St Agnes Church               26cm x 56cm        watercolour on watercolour board

This painting is based on some photographs I had taken a few weeks earlier, late on a June evening, on the island of St Agnes. The sun was going down behind several strands of fogbanks, rendering the various lines of rocky islets as sometimes there, sometimes not.  The sky colours added further notes of drama to the scene.

At the time I had been invited to do a watercolour demonstration for the St Mary's Art Group.  The idea was to demonstrate large varied watercolour washes and the use of wet into wet techniques, as well as to show the use of watercolour as a means to convey moody atmospheric scenes. I thought this was the ideal subject to choose and so did this painting as the demonstration.