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The MacTaggarts visited the town of Humbie in East Lothian regularly, particularly in winter, where he would produce charcoal sketches en plein air to later develop in the studio into finished oils. This painting, which features a low winter sun hanging over the distant Pentland Hills, conveys the mood and atmosphere of an East Lothian landscape in the gloaming, which MacTaggart, who had grown up in Loanhead, was so familiar. Like many of his later works this painting, completed with a palette knife, has a poetic quality in which MacTaggart heightens the abstract qualities of the landscape ‘to enrich the experience of the spectator… To create some kind of mood that somebody else responds to.’ This painting is one of the finest he produced and was exhibited at both major MacTaggart retrospectives at the National Galleries of Scotland in 1968 and 1998.
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