Beachy Head Lighthouse White Cliffs Lavender Sea

Print description

View of the East side of Beachy Head with the Lighthouse in the distance.

Print details

Digital pigment print from original ink drawings. Printed on fine art paper using archival inks. Available in sizes A0,A1, A2, A3 or A4 as limited editions of 100. Each print is individually signed and numbered.

Beachy Head and the Seven Sisters

Brass Point is at the halfway point along the Seven Sisters. Looking east towards Belle Tout lighthouse you can imagine a scene long ago as customs officers defended this coastline against smugglers. Below you is the site of Crowlink coastguard station though all that remains today are tell-tale banks and hollows in the grassland. Recent archaeological work shed light on the day to day life of the people living here. The excavations unearthed household objects including plates, saucers, beer bottles, pins, pipe and gilt coastguard buttons dating from 1820.

The Seven Sisters are a series of chalk sea cliffs on the English Channel coast, and are a stretch of the sea-eroded section of the South Downs range of hills, in the county of East Sussex, in south-east England. The Seven Sisters cliffs run between the mouth of the River Cuckmere near Seaford, and the chalk headland of Beachy Head outside of Eastbourne. Each of the Seven Sisters cliffs are distinguished by dips in-between them, which are the remnants of dry valleys in the chalk South Downs which are being gradually eroded by the sea.

Some of the cliffs and adjacent countryside make up the Seven Sisters Country Park, which is bounded on its inland side by the A259 road, and is itself a part of the larger South Downs National Park

Drawing with seagull’s feathers

In this video I show how I draw with feathers and ink the shapes for high grasses that later I will use in this art print. I find the feathers along the seashore, often after storms in Brighton Beach.

Lavender. Art Print Collection.

This tonal collection echoes the work of British painters of the late 19th century, such as John Brett and William Holman Hunt that depicted coastal scenes with wonderful vibrancy and atmosphere.

Buy not only that, in addition, this tonal collection uses, as noted by Pantone, the “happiest and warmest of all the blue hues,” the 2022 Colour of the Year that has been named “Very Peri”. It is a “dynamic periwinkle blue hue with a vivifying violet-red undertone,” according to a press release. It combines the faithfulness of blue with the energy and excitement of red. 

To see other prints of this collection please click on this link: ‘Lavender Art’.