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All paintings acrylic on stretched canvas, 4.5cm deep with clean white painted sides. Please note that the majority of my paintings are on consignment with my galleries at most times, if you're interested in a particular piece please email me and I can let you know where it can be viewed or if it is with me in the studio. Prices: £500 (50cm x 50cm canvases), |
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My journey began in 2005, cycling between Margate and Dover the year the snowstorms hit Kent at Christmas. Despite, or perhaps because of, the snow I was able to ride to Dover on the first day to witness brilliant low winter sun gleaming off the sea as I sat with a cup of tea in the cliff-top visitors centre. Suddenly the ideas of combining the three things I love most - cycling, the sea and painting - seemed inevitable. The trip is taken done in stages, Each time I head out on a one-way train trip with the bike with my pannier bags fulls of clothes for any weather (I needed my wool hat one August!), fruit and peanut butter sandwiches, sketchbooks, pencils, pastels, paints and my camera. Routes are planned, somewhat vaguely, for 3-4 days. Being a non-native to the UK (though I?ve been here for 14 years) I'm always thrown by something. Places with "beach" in their name can be at the top of a cliff (Beachy Head, yes I did cycle up it), hills to climb in unexpected places, or a cycle route that suddenly ends in front of some sheep. Sheep can't (or won't) give directions. Afterwards, exhausted and with a head full of ideas I head back to the studio to turn the myriad of sketches, watercolours, photos and scribbled on maps into small studies and then a few select canvases specific places from the journey. I want to capture the changing colours of the sea and sky, the light and weather of each beach or cliff. Wonderfully, no two days or places are ever the same. It never ceases to amaze me when I look back on one season?s paintings to notice the change in colour palette and mood. The estuary ride in spring was vividly bright with brilliantly blue clear skies reflecting in the water. The winter ride between Dover and Margate, the journey that started the project, was sombre snowy days with grey skies and green grey waters everywhere. The Sussex coast also had a lot of green waters but brighter and lighter atmospheres. The journey so far: the Thames estuary from London to Margate, Isle of Sheppey, Margate to Dover, Folkestone to Beachy Head, Newhaven to Chicester, Shoeburyness to Two Trees Island ... Click on the map for a more detailed view:
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