#bedruthan

“Bedruthan Steps”

Hand painted on stretched canvas in acrylics.

Size 60cm x 50cm.

You know how this goes. We start with the bed sheets, I’d call them plum, or maybe more of a claret, too dark for my liking either way. Tiny windows framing fields, an old phone box that works. White cotton blouse with pintucks, sunhat with a pale blue ribbon, of course  Park up by the toilets opposite Rick Stein’s. Every shop with large buckets of netted shells, so many little brittle housings…

She wondered about the grains of sand, would they still lie there, would they be there, somewhere on the beach where she ran. Or have they been washed out to sea, floating somewhere else or swallowed by fish or washed to a different port, a different country that they visited. And the steps back up to the top, the winding cliff path with its haphazard stones and rocks. Would they still be in…