Hastings 2004
I gave up lecturing at University College Chichester at the end of 2003 to be able to concentrate on re-establishing myself as a practicing artist. I moved to Hastings, East Sussex, where I found the dynamic visual seafront town and colourful people a new source of visual stimulus. After a spending February - April walking and drawing around Hastings every day and then making small watercolours, gouaches and acrylics, I was desperate to to make some larger more ambitious works in oils. I developed a preoccupation with the sensibilities and choreography of queuing, coupled with the quirky pagan rituals of this extraordinary seaside town. Everywhere you walk in Hastings you are confronted with the sea along with dramatic chages in height and scale. My year in Hastings came to and end when I got a job at Oxford Brookes in January 2005.
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Oil Painting |
'Battle for Chichester Cross' Oil on Canvas, 2004
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'beach asylym', oil on mdf, 2004, 100cm x 83cm,
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'bored four', oil on hardboard, 2004, 30cm x 33cm,
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'buggy man study', oil on hardboard, 2004, 30cm x 33cm,
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xposed under the promenade', oil on card, 2004, 44cm x 33cm,
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'finding the book', oil on hardboard, 2004, 23cm x 42cm, |
'the giant pagan', oil on card, 2004, 44cm x 33cm, |
'Hastings Gardens', oil on canvas', 2004 |
'hear no evil', oil on mdf, 2004, 73cm x 93cm, |
'hide from dad', oil on hardboard, 2004, 30cm x 33cm, |
hot queue', oil on mdf, 2004, 66cm x 54cm, |
'labourer', oil on hardboard, 2004, 30cm x 33cm, |
'pagan rehearsal', oil on mdf, 2004, 81cm x 100cm, |
'sign on at camber sands', oil on mdf, 2004, 92cm x 73cm |
he lost pagan', oil on mdf, 2004, 81cm x 65cm, |
'the three disgraces', oil on canvas, 2004, 41cm x 23cm, |
tumbling body', oil on mdf, 2004, 65cm x 83cm, |
'under the prom', oil on mdf, 2004, 65cm x 54cm, |
waiting for a table', oil on mdf, 2004, 100cm x 81cm, |
'woman by pier', oil on hardboard, 2004, 304cm x 33cm, |
Watercolour and Acrylic |
''avoiding the big fella', acrylic on paper, 2004, 17cm x22cm,
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biggerman', acrylic, 2004
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'blue walkers', Watercolour, 2004, 27cm x 19cm
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'cross paths', Acrylic on Board, 2004, 21cm x 15cm,
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dining room archway', gouache, 2004, 30cm x 45cm,
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'fat lady sings', Watercolour, 2004, 25cm x 18cm, |
'the fire inspectors', watercolour, 2004,30cm x 20cm |
'flotsom',watercolour, 2004, 35cm x 26cm |
'food conveyor', acrylic on paper, 2004, 17cm x22cm, |
'garden divide 1', acrylic on paper, 2004, 39cm x 27cm |
'garden divide 2', watercolour, 2004, 36cm x 26cm |
'garden divide 3', acrylic and watercolour, 2004, 36cm x 25cm |
'green lady', acrylic on paper, 2004, 17cm x22cm, |
'hastings mothers', acrylic on card, 2004, 29cm x 39cm, |
'huddle', acrylic on paper, 2004, 17cm x22cm, |
'inpectors', watercolour, 2004, 29cm x 20cm, |
'is it a book?', acrylic on paper, 2004, 17cm x22cm, |
'leave the caberet', acrylic on paper, 2004, 22cm x17cm, |
'lying trees', acrylic and pencil', 2004 |
'men in suits' gouache, 2004, 43cm x 31cm, |
'mobiles at bonfire', watercolour', 2004 |
'no signal', watercolour, 2004, 36cm x 26cm |
'parade', watercolour, 2004 |
'peer in window', gouache, 2004 , 20cm x 16cm, |
'personal space', acrylic on paper, 2004, 17cm x22cm, |
'queue at pett level', watercolour, 2004, 30cm x 20cm |
'queue for beach', Acrylic on Card, 2004, 41cm x 30cm, |
'queue for slide' , Acrylic on Card, Hastings 2004, 38cm x 30, |
'riders at peer', gouache, 2004 , 20cm x 16cm, |
'road queue', gouache, 2004 , 16cm x 20cm, |
'school run', watercolour and conte, 2004, 36cm x 25cm |
''sky study 2', watercolour, 2004, 10cm x 14cm |
'sky study 3', watercolour, 2004, 16cm x 11cm |
'split',watercolour, 2004, 17cm x 26cm |
'baggage at Maidstone Barracks Station', acrylic on card, 2004, 40cm x 30cm |
'the bigger man', watercolour, 2004 |
'two at fish huts', gouache, 2004, 29cm x 40cm, |
wall knap', watercolour, 2004, 17cm x 26cm |
'westhill hastings', waterolour, 2004, 30cm x 21cm, |
'westhill tumble', watercolour, 2004, 28cm x 23cm, |
Drawing |
big man and bonfire', drawing', 2004 |
'confronted', conte and watercolour, 2004, 29cm x 20cm |
'inspecotrs consult',charcoal pencils, 2004,26cm x 28cm |
"Invisible big man', drawing, 2004 |
'invisible folk', drawing, 2004, |
'man over old town', charcoal and conte, 2004 19cm x 26cm |
the three enigmas, acrylic on board, 2002, 26cm x 30cm, |
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