Original artwork description:

Dennis Head from the Flushing beach on the Helford Estuary.
I love the rolling rhythm of trees and rocks along this land mass.

Dennis Head is named from the Cornish 'dinas' meaning 'castle', and there was a cliff castle here in the Iron Age, about 2000 years ago. Its strategic position at the mouth of the Helford River meant that the headland was fortified throughout history. In 1643 it was a Royalist stronghold during the English Civil War, and the gun emplacements at each corner of the rectangular ruins can still be clearly seen today at Little Dennis. It is believed that there may also have been a small garrison chapel within the seventeenth-century fort.

Materials used:

Watercolour

Tags:

#seascape #landscape #historical #watercolour #bold #british #cornwall #simple #coastline #historic #headland #cornish #lyrical #evocative #helfordriver