During my travels around the Scottish coastline for the Coast Road Diaries I used an old cottage as my studio base, half way up the cliff at Rackwick, on the Island of Hoy in Orkney. Rackwick itself is an extra-ordinary place. Home to more sea birds than humans, there is a dream like quality to being there. This small painting was conceived upon waking from a dream filled doze at the bottom of a cliff side ‘garden’. The whole world had turned a complicated blue, except for the approaching rain cloud. Being in Rackwick references the work as a key location of the artist Sylvia Wishart.