View Over Cape d'Orso, Ravello looks out from the heights of Ravello across one of the most recognised panoramas on the Amalfi Coast. Hillside villages step down towards the curve of the Tyrrhenian Sea, with the headland of Cape d'Orso reaching into the water beyond. The composition sets terraced slopes and layered cliffs against the open expanse of the coastline, framing the town's architecture within the wider geography of this stretch of southern Italy.

Mike Bernard works the scene in mixed media, the collage and acrylic technique that defines his practice as a contemporary British artist. Layers of collaged paper underpin the surface, over which acrylic and acrylic ink are applied in blues and warm terracotta tones. Passages of architectural detail are drawn out against a semi-abstract structure, with fragments of the underlying paper left visible and the texture of the collage carried through into the finished composition. Born in Kent in 1957, Mike Bernard studied at the West Surrey College of Art and Design and at the Royal Academy Schools, and was elected a member of the Royal Institute of Painters in Watercolour in 1997. Now based in Devon, he is known for coastal, harbour and market subjects across Britain and abroad, worked through his characteristic mixed media approach. View Over Cape d'Orso, Ravello extends that continental subject matter to the Amalfi Coast, one of the most visited stretches of the Italian coastline.