This is one of several paintings Redpath completed after travelling in Corsica in 1955. It shows her increasing use of the palette knife and layering of bright colours in an expressive response to the character of the town. While in Corsica her palette expanded to include the violets and scarlets she found on the island’s hillsides. She commented that: “I would go to Corsica and paint houses on a hillside. I would exaggerate the buttress quality of the building… instead of having it at right angles to the earth I would exaggerate the fact that the base of it was broader than the top of it, then therefore it looked as if it was growing out of the hill. So that while I am interested in the structural shapes of the picture, I am also interested in the structure of the objects themselves.”