The scene
Tall white towers with pennants stand on a rocky headland where the river meets the sea. Gulls wheel round the spires, small waves roll up a pale beach, green hills fold away into the distance and the whole sky glows pink, gold and turquoise. There is no one in the picture.
The style
A Romantic seascape of the 1850s: luminous sunrise colour, translucent rolling waves and a glowing sky that seems to light the whole sea.
The inspiration
Inspired by The Chronicles of Narnia by C. S. Lewis. The look comes from Ivan Aivazovsky's Sunrise in Feodosia (1855): sea light, glowing water and a huge morning sky, painted in luminous oils.
How it's made
A print of a digital artwork in the style of a nineteenth-century Russian seascape in oils, not an original. Each carries my printed Chapter & Scene signature.
