A marine paintiing in oils of Blackpool titled "The Sands above North Pier" in oils Lancashire artist Rob Miller RSA

For me Blackpool has a kind of hypnotic resonance with the past industrial cities of  North West England and Scotlands Glasgow. Its hard though to marry the amazing skies and colours of the sands, the moving sky and poetry of marine with the stag and hen parties which roll around Blackpool at the weekend. This painting was made about 500 yards above the north pier. The sea close to the beach glows a deep brown with the wet sands a deep yellow dotted white cream by flocks of gulls...a more wilder spot a more spacious spot would be hard to find.....the waves lit occasionally by a gleam of green light  a mystical place ..... I think its a viking kind of place that presents a norske  poetry resonating, crying  Blackpool lies between natures spaces and mans lust