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I have been invited to show works from the Fortress and Citadel Series at BPS in June this year. Full details following soon.

'Growing up in a holiday destination, small, seaside town it is not surprising that much of my work has referenced the sea, the beach and the littoral.
In this new series of paintings I find that the canvases echo the marks, lines and shapes that we made in the wet, grey sand of my home town beach: thus the canvas becomes the beach that acted as the canvas of my childhood.
Along with scratched messages to the gods, our childhood castles in the sand were built to keep out the marauding tidal waters; today, I believe these tidal images represent something more sinister referencing an incoming wave of bigotry and intolerance. And whilst these are not overtly political works I find within them a questioning on the notion of place, identity and belonging.'

Image: Fortress 4 . Oil and charcoal and conte on canvas, 150 x 140 x 3 cm