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As this is my first time posting on Steemit I shall keep it brief.

I'm an artist living in beautiful Cornwall, a stone's throw away from the most south-westerly tip of mainland Britain that is Land's End.  I discovered Steemit through my interest in blockchain technology, however where exactly I couldn't quite say!

I'm going to post a series of my paintings and ink drawings over the next few weeks / months, each accompanied by a brief description.  This first one is really a sketch; 450 x 75 x 110mm acrylic seascape, painted directly onto a piece of driftwood that I found at a beach on Gower Peninsula, Wales.  

The image depicts a memory I have of a stormy, winter's walk at Porthtowan, North Cornwall in 2007.  The surf was pumping;  thick, cold, long-period swells, marching a path from the other side of the Atlantic Ocean, groomed by the frigid offshore wind.  Heaving, cylindrical tubes detonate on the shallow sandbars of a low-tide Cornish beach.

I gave this as a house-warming present to some good friends last year.  The wood drifts on.  

Thanks for your time!