The Cathedral, Range of Rocks

Upon Sutherland’s return to Pembrokeshire in 1967, the artist began working on new themes. He found inspiration in the rock formations in the estuary at Milford Haven. Sutherland developed these architectural rock formations, which had been pierced by weather and sea erosions, into towering and ecclesiastical ovations in his The Cathedral, Range of Rocks. His late works 'should not be interpreted in terms of the intentions of his earlier style. They are imaginings of a different order, inspired by the ‘remarkable clarity of the everchanging light’' (J. Hayes, The Art of Graham Sutherland, Oxford, 1980; J. Ormond, Sutherland in Wales, BBC Wales Television, 1977).