Employing abstract and figurative qualities, the Porthmeor series is based on images of Patrick Heron??s studio in the small fishing village of St. Ives located in Cornwall, UK, a center of artistic production in the 1920s and again in the 1950s-60s that hosted the most important British avant-garde artists working at the time, including William Scott, Peter Lanyon, Terry Frost, and Sandra Blow.