From 1956 Hilton made frequent painting trips to Cornwall, and at the same time began to reintroduce figurative and landscape motifs into his abstract paintings. This is evident in this painting, where the flat, vertically arranged areas of colour are suggestive of a fence of wooden poles. The artist also began to use titles in his work again in the late 1950s, after a period of simply labelling them with the month and year of their production. Many of them make reference to Cornwall and the sea.