St Mary's Lighthouse Twilight Pools

Twilight in magenta and violet, the lighthouse in near silhouette while the rock pools at low tide hand the pink sky back in miniature. Portrait format, the most painterly of the St Mary's set.

St Mary's Lighthouse stands on its small tidal island just north of Whitley Bay, reached by a causeway when the tide allows. It was completed in 1898 and kept ships safe until 1984, and remains one of the best-loved landmarks on the North East coast.