This painting probably shows Clegyr-Boia, near Porthclais on the north side of St Bride's Bay in Pembrokeshire. Sutherland spent much time in the area from the 1930s onwards. His relationship with the Welsh landscape had a cecisive impact on his development as a painter.

Sutherland was also deeply influenced by the art of William Blake and Samuel Palmer. He believed in what he called 'intrinsic' drawing which submerges seen objects in 'the
resevoir of the subcinscious mind'. The pink and black colouring adds an eerir effect to a work which evokes some of the threat of war.