To take a visit to the North Yorkshire seaside resort of Saltburn by the Sea is to take a nostalgic trip back to the first days of seaside bathing. Below the grand terrace of buildings perched on the clifftop edge, the town’s pier sits as an icon to Victorian engineering. Like a gleaming white hyphen it juts out into the sea punctuating the distance between water and land. Its full exposure as the tide ebbed left it standing proud above the sands of the gently sloping beach. This painting shows the scene as Storm Brendan approached in January 2020, with its 60mph winds that battered the UK.