This painting has the most wonderful illumination. Created by building many layers of translucent colour over an under-gilded linen surface of gold leaf. 
The painting is this built up further using pigment directly into cold wax and applied with palette knife to add further movement.
Inspired by The Shipping Forecast by Seamus Heaney, the painting celebrates the poets words through art.
 
The Shipping Forecast by Seamus Heaney
Dogger, Rockall, Malin, Irish Sea: Green, swift upsurges, North Atlantic flux Conjured by that strong gale-warning voice, Collapse into a sibilant penumbra. Midnight and closedown. Sirens of the tundra, Of eel-road, seal-road, keel-road, whale-road, raise Their wind-compounded keen behind the baize And drive the trawlers to the lee of Wicklow. L’Etoile, Le Guillemot, La Belle Hélène Nursed their bright names this morning in the bay That toiled like mortar. It was marvellous And actual, I said out loud, ‘A haven,’ The word deepening, clearing, like the sky Elsewhere on Minches, Cromarty, The Faroes.