This artist is most readily known for his association with the British 'kitchen-sink group' of painters of the 1950s. As well as works of social realism, he has also produced landscapes throughout his career. Here he has created a strong visual and conceptual experience of a seascape through the application of thick impasto paint for the stormy sea, with thinner paint representing the sky and rain. With cliffs visible on the left, the rainbow has been slashed across the horizon to the centre of this atmospheric work. The movement of the water contrasts with the solidity and darkness of the sky. Coker was working in the Scottish isles from 1970 but while this is one of the paintings from this period it is from the Yorkshire coast. It was originally shown at the Thackeray Gallery, London, then at the Royal Academy summer exhibition in 1975, and received very favourable press notices; subsequently at the Chelmsford and Essex Museum in 1978, Edinburgh in 1979 and the Academie Royale des Beaux Arts, Antwerp, in 1981.