Moonlit Harbour Lighthouse — Palette Knife Art Print

About this artwork

A full moon hangs in the upper left of this lighthouse wall art, ringed by swirling strokes of violet and indigo. Below, a small harbour lies almost still. Three sailboats are moored on the left, one showing a flash of red sail, and three more rest against a stone quay on the right, their masts and rigging drawn in fine dark lines against the sky.

At the end of the pier a slender dark-red lighthouse sends two short beams of gold out to either side. A row of iron lamps runs along the quay in front of terraced houses with lit windows and chimney stacks, and each lamp drops a ribbon of orange onto the water. Through the middle of the harbour runs a long, broken column of gold, coral and pink, the brightest passage in the picture. The rest of the water is cut into thick dabs of navy, cobalt and plum.

About Harbour Lighthouses

Many harbours mark their entrance with a light at the end of a pier or breakwater, so boats returning after dark can find the gap safely. Each lighthouse shows its own pattern of flashes or colour, known as its characteristic, which lets sailors tell one light from another. The Fresnel lens, developed in France in the 1820s, made such lights visible much farther out to sea. Today most lighthouses are automated, but their lamps still guide boats into port every night.

How to style it

Its navy, violet and gold palette suits coastal, nautical and modern interiors, from a bathroom or guest room to a study with deep blue walls; a black metal frame gives it crisp edges. It sits well beside the stone bridge at night as a pair of moonlit waterside scenes. Explore the full Palette Knife Cityscapes collection.