At fairs I’m often asked if I’m from North East Yorkshire, I think it’s due to my absolute love and nostalgia for the place that I keep creating screen prints of the landscape in this area. I grew visiting family in Teeside and we would almost always visit Redcar or Saltburn, so Cleveland almost feels like a second home.

We had a lovely long escape here a few years ago, to escape neighbours renovating, and we got to see Saltburn-By-The-Sea in lots of different times of the day, and with this print I wanted to depict one of those evening walks along the coast and that fading light.

I’m always drawn to a pier and the structure as well as the shadows it creates on the water. Saltburn’s pier is actually the last remaining one in the North East and Yorkshire Coast, it’s also Grade II listed…but may be most importantly it’s where the arcades are and where you watch some of the amazing surfing that goes on at this beach. Saltburn is also another beautiful stop on the Cleveland Way walk.