La marée haute à Saint-Malo

Ethel Carrick's depiction of Saint-Malo conveys a moment seized with delightful briskness. She painted it during a trip along the coast of Brittany with her artist-husband E Phillips Fox.

Carrick portrays a lively orchestration of visitors to the charming fortified town, as they file between rows of change booths, the small beach shrunken by the encroaching tide. She embraces the colourful array of hats, jackets, dresses and umbrellas worn by the promenading figures shimmering in the sun, immortalising pleasures soon to recede with the advent of war.