Beachy Head Wild Meadows Chalk and Flint Cliffs and the Sea
£40.00 – £310.00
Description
Beachy Head Wild Meadows Chalk and Flint Cliffs and the 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.
Seven Sisters Walk
The Seven Sisters National Park is just a stone thrown – a flint stone – away from Brighton. I often take bus no.12 to Eastbourne and stop halfway at Cuckmere. The first section of the walk takes you along the meandering marshland and mouth of the Cuckmere River. Then you continue along the shore climbing up and down the chalk cliffs.
Beachy Head and the Seven Sisters
Brass Point is at the halfway point along the Seven Sisters. Looking east towards Beachy Head lighthouse you can imagine a scene long ago as customs officers defended this coastline against smugglers.
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
Beachy Head Lighthouse
below the cliffs of Beachy Head in East Sussex in the English Channel you can find Beachy Head Lighthouse
It started operating in 1902 as the last traditional-style ‘rock tower’ or offshore lighthouse to be built by Trinity House
The nearby Belle Tout Lighthouse, built 1834 on top of the cliffs was not as successful as had been hoped, as its light was frequently obscured by sea mists so in 1902 was decommissioned.
The lighthouse was built by Sir Thomas Matthews, the Trinity House Engineer-in-Chief. The tower was constructed in Cornish granite and was lifted with a cable car from the top of the cliff. The lighthouse was fitted with an explosive fog signal and paraffin lights.
As a curious note, a successful sponsored campaign to repaint the distinctive red and white stripes was launched in October 2011 as Trinity announced that it could no longer afford decoration and that it would have to be left to return to its natural granite grey.
Art Print Base ink Drawing
Art print base ink drawing . I draw with fine line pens, sponges, seagull feathers, sanding paper, cardboard rugged edges to create shapes and textures.
Additional information
| Dimensions | N/A |
|---|---|
| Print sizes: standard landscape | Art print A0 size landscape, Art print A1 size landscape, Art print A2 size landscape, Art print A3 size landscape, Art print A4 size landscape |
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