Painter, printmaker and draughtswoman Wilhelmina Barns-Graham studied at Edinburgh College of Art, before moving to St Ives, Cornwall, where she mixed with fellow artists including Barbara Hepworth. She joined the Newlyn Society of Artists, the St Ives Society of Artists and became a founder-member of the Penwith Society in 1949, later dividing her time between St Ives and St Andrews. Her concerns with precise drawing, and the ordering of shapes and colour, and her style of abstraction based firmly on perception, are evident in this work, which shares similarities with her drawings and paintings of glaciers of the early 1950s, inspired by a holiday to Switzerland. This painting was exhibited at the WIAC in 1952.