Dennis Buchan (b1937) worked in a studio at Arbroath harbour. He describes his paintings as follows (RSA website):
They are about living – emotional responses to environments and situations, always more romantic in stimulus than intellectual. Colour relationships, inspired by music, movement and change of space all have their place in the development of the pictorial image…They are not stories, but evocative manifestations – they are about living and reacting.
The North sea was in his mind, part of his discourse about what he was painting and where he was doing it. This painting links the sensuous experience of listening to music with proximity to that sea.
