BHC0028

Sennen Cove, Cornwall Long Caption: A lively sketch of waves breaking on the shore on the Cornish coast. Everett has applied a thick impasto paint to show the white crests of the waves. The sea is shown deep green and the sky is ranged in horizontal stripes from pink, through orange to yellow and mauve. The colours and method of painting the waves hint at the chaos of the action of a wave breaking. The artist was concerned to create a sequential series of these paintings to capture the effect of waves breaking. Credit line: © National Maritime Museum, Greenwich, London Object: BHC0028 Artist: Herbert Barnard John Everett Date: 1919 Medium: oil on paper Size: 250 mm x 355 mm Click here to buy a bespoke print of this image.