The composition shows the sun setting north of the Isle of Arran, seen from the coast of Ayrshire near Seamill where there is a field which protrudes onto the beach.

James Fullarton, born 1946

A painter and lecturer born in Glasgow, Fullarton he studied at the School of Art under David Donaldson, gaining his diploma in 1969. From that time he painted full-time, whilst lecturing for the Scottish Arts Council. Fullarton uses a broad palette, with colour the dominant feature, for portraits, landscape and still life in oil and acrylic.