Andrew Bateman

I am an artist painting and creating based in Whitstable.

I used to work for the NHS providing MRI scans to patients and also as a veterinary nurse for 4 years, but after being diagnosed with autism in 2019, I decided to change my life totally and do something I love. I find painting takes me off to another world.

I work from my home, painting mainly in oils. I paint animals, but I also love painting in an expressionistic style too and have been working on some very personal pieces alongside my work centreing on animals.

I have turned some of my work into greetings cards and prints.

Archie Archer

Hi, I’m Archie lovely to say hello. I make greeting cards using sea glass that I find on the beaches in Kent. I live on a little boat in Sandwich with my dog Bolt.

My range of cute sea glass cards started in the Summer of 2018 whilst walking my Labrador 'Bolt' on the sunny beaches in Margate. Like a magpie I began collecting sea glass. Today I forage my sea glass in picturesque Folkestone. The glass is more tumbled as the beaches are stony. This sea glass tumbling malarkey takes many years to polish glass smooth. Where I find my sea glass, I believe there was a Victorian glass factory and therefore my sea glass is over 100 years old. I am litter picking the beaches of Victorian rubbish!