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I use my own photographs of the East Kent Coastline as the starting point for my paintings. I work mostly with acrylics, but I have recently been adding ink and collage elements too. The layers produce a range of colours, found in the natural seascapes, that reveal themselves through the final surface.

The paintings show an abstracted view from the photographs, occasionally including recognisable landmarks or forms of particular areas, but focussing on the forms that the tides and the coastal features create.