Scorching Heat, Porthcurno

From the magnificent granite headland of Treryn Dinas I painted Porthcurno Beach. Folliott-Stokes describes the coves seen from this headland in Cornish Coast and Moors: ‘They are, where the rock is granite or basaltic, guarded by cliffs and headlands crowned with pinnacles which give them the appearance of titanic castles. The sides of these natural bastions glow with many coloured lichens… These secluded amphitheatres of stern grandeur and vivid beauty enclose water so deeply blue that one can only liken it to melted sapphire, save when it approaches the little scimitar of sand at the foot of the cliffs’.