Bucolic. Calm. Beautiful. 'Living the Life' beside the sea. Healthy. Happy. Days of Sunny Holidays. But sometimes, no ....
Imagine a dark winters night; the wind is howling, the rain is horizontal its icy-cold drops as sharp as razor blades.
The volunteer RNLI crew are running along that street - Hope Street, their heads bent - pagers on their belts beeping - 'Launch' 'Launch' 'Launch'.
And off they go, into the raging stormy night to save a life of whom they know not.
Sometimes when they return early in the morning The Cove looks exactly like this.
And we know that Hope Street has lived up to its name!
(and for every sale of this print I will make a donation to my local boat, the Weymouth branch of the RNLI)
"Seven Decades of Dorset: Where Ancient Coast Meets Living Art"
On and off for 75 years, I have walked the same Dorset shores, watched the same ancient light dance across Jurassic cliffs, felt the same wild weather that has shaped this coast for millennia. My abstract expressionistic paintings..
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