The second in my Northern Monk Patrons Project Culinary Adventures series, I was given the brief for this one in the early days of the Pandemic and during a lockdown and unfortunately I'd not been to Scarborough since I was a teenager, I had planned to go this year but as with a lot of things that was just not possible and couldn't get there due to the restrictions at the time.

So after a callout and was put in touch with a friend's boss, Mark, who was a superstar and who took a few sets of photos for me after giving him an idea of what I was looking for. I think he did three trips out for me as part of his allocated daily exercise to capture the images I was after. This makes this the first print where I have not gone out to do the research (apart from travelling through Google Images, Instagram and Streetview...which I intensely studied) or the photography myself.

I had an idea that with this landscape I wanted something to reflect a typical British seaside resort and as the flavour of this beer was ice cream this view seemed perfect. For the eagle eyed amongst you may have also spotted that this is first time I've included text and people (socially distanced of course) in a print. I also wanted to feature the lighthouse as another feature that makes this artwork more placeable as Scarborough.

The colours of the yellow sand and the light blue sky were chosen to give that typical seaside feel.