North Bay – Scarborough – Card

The Cleveland Way is one of the shorter national trails, beginning in Helmsley in North Yorkshire. The path takes you to the coast at Saltburn by the Sea, and then all along the coastal path to Filey Brigg. In May 2025 I ran the whole path over the course of a week. I was on my own for most of it, then joined by my best running friends at Whitby for the last couple of days. I carried a little running pack with everything I needed for the week on my back (I wasn’t camping!) and the smallest drawing kit in a pouch on my front. I stopped to draw whenever inspiration struck. I took photographs too, but mostly the paintings are based on the sketches.

Sometimes, when we were running, I’d stop and shout “there’s a painitng here” and make the girls stop. They were very patient! As we arrived on North Beach at Scarborough I was struck by the colours of the huts and how the colours were reflected in the wet sand.