It’s my Study in Grey, an oil painting of Lanildut, Brittany, on a cloudy October day; but it’s not gloomy because the sun found a way through the thick clouds and sparkled on the sea around the rocks in the middle-ground. As you can see from the progression from beginning to near completion, out of the grey came both darkness and light. Aptly enough, today began grey and cloudy here in Dawlish, then rain, sunshine, and now it’s dark – hence the need to photograph in artificial light.