My wife and I had cycled past the harbour briefly on the way through to the dunes and the deer at Holkham Hall the day before. I knew I needed to make time and sit and take in Burnham Overy Harbour's undeniable charms.
My early morning revisit witnessed an old gentleman busy halfway up a ladder leisurely painting the black weatherboard of the cottage during my sketch. The humble harbour was calm and peaceful and patiently awaiting the onset of a Norfolk winter.
The illustration composition is magical for the artist - the cottage in the foreground, the hillock leading the eye first left, then right and traveling up the path past the boats to rest up the estuary and the big Norfolk sky.
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Hand signed A4 Print of Burnham Overy Staithe Harbour
Pen and marker sketch on Bockingford 190gsm watercolour paper £14.99
Original illustration Burnham Overy Staithe Harbour
12' x 9" pen and marker sketch on 140lb water colour paper available from:
The Artmonger
21 North Street
Burnham Market
Norfolk
United Kingdom
PE31 8HG
+44 (0)1328 730 370
www.theartmonger.co.uk
© Robert R Wisdom www.theartofengland.co.uk 2012
