This print’s stripped-back planes echo the tidal rhythm of Swansea Bay: granite greys, salt-sprayed whites and a tight seam of North Atlantic blue meeting the horizon. Your eye drifts from the crisp block forms to the drizzle-soft grain at the surface, then snaps back to the lighthouse’s vertical.
Tilt the image and a Hasui-era Ukiyo-e seascape slips into view: compressed depth, patient cloud bands, atmosphere doing the narrative heavy-lifting. On the lower right, a lone woman in vermilion sits on the rocks, shoulders pitched forward as if waiting for the next tide—or the next frame. The lighthouse, gulls and rain-streaked sky become supporting cast for her interior weather.
Smart, spare and quietly cinematic, the work leaves just enough narrative slack for viewers to write the episode that follows.
