From the Painting Guide: It has a distinctive Mediterranean feel to it – I think it's the colours and style of the buildings that immediately transport me. There's a lovely feeling of depth created by that distant mountain and the clouds. I guess it's genuinely like this, but the town seems strangely devoid of human occupation – no sunshades over any window, or washing hanging out to dry, nor window boxes full of plants, though at this scale it'd be little more than a dot of colour. I think I might have invented something for the eye to focus on, or composed it so that the tower near the sea got the focus, because at the moment there's no focal point and my eye drifts around the buildings.

The waves bother me. The scale of the waves in the foreground and the middle ground are the same, whereas I'd expect them to be getting smaller, as they do in the background. I'm also pertured by the scale of the waves – compared to the buildings they seem too large. Also the swell is parallel to the base of the painting whereas I'd expect it to be parallel to the shore they hit.