Cliffborne Memory

This alcohol ink painting on Yupo paper captures the majestic cliffs of the Jurassic Coast with a poetic blend of visual texture and translucence. The palette moves from soft aquamarine and denim blues across the sky and sea, into earthy ochres and golden browns that form the sweeping, time-worn face of the cliff.
The composition is both abstract and evocative, with fluid, wave-like strokes that mimic the ancient sedimentary layers etched by millennia of wind and water. Fine linear details at the cliff’s edge resemble fossil striations, while the smooth, glassy quality of the ink over Yupo gives the piece a luminous, almost aerial serenity.
It feels as though we are standing at a vantage point—perhaps on the beach below, gazing up at the towering stone, or on a ledge looking down to the sea's distant shimmer.
 
 
Worn by wind, carved by sea,
this cliff stands as a monument to memory —
a golden wall of ancient breath,
where time collects like grains of sand
in every quiet crease.
The ocean whispers at its feet,
a pale blue hush of eternity,
tracing lines as old as longing.
Here, history is not just seen —
it is felt,
rising through stone like a half-remembered dream
of warmth, of weight, of wild beginnings.
This is the coast’s soft thunder:
a silence that speaks
in layers and light.
 
19.2cm by  24cm