Where fire meets tide

This dramatic alcohol ink painting on Yupo paper captures the raw, elemental power of the Jurassic Coast's cliffs. The composition suggests a windswept shoreline where geological epochs meet the restless sea.

The sea itself is rendered in cool gradients of pale turquoise and slate, calm yet ever-reaching. In striking contrast, the cliffs rise in molten tones of burnt sienna, amber, and black — like fire caught in stone. Veins of  charcoal, and lavender-grey ripple through the midsection, conjuring the complex strata and weather-worn textures of eroded rock.

Beneath it all, warm ochres and honeyed golds evoke sand and sunlit earth — a grounding force amid the stormy palette above.

There is tension here, but also beauty — the kind born from millennia of pressure, release, and transformation.

Here, at the edge of a restless world, the land remembers its molten birth — a cliff face kissed by flame, seared in sienna and smoke.

The ocean presses in, cool and persistent, its blues a balm against the scorched and trembling earth. They meet not in battle, but in a dance of slow undoing — tide carving time into the bones of stone.

Beneath the chaos, a hush of gold — the shore, patient and bright, holds their memory.

This is the place where fire meets tide, and something ancient rises in the silence between.

19.2cm by  24cm