This are not a painting. I feel obliged to explain verbally these images: The original still life photograph is lifted, raised to another level, to another interpretation, a new reality. A curator placed this final interpretation in the realm of Magic Realism, a term which is commonly applied to literature, specifically Latin American fiction. And thus attempting to bridge the gap between traditional photography and traditional painting (the repetition of 'traditional' is intended)

Looking through some old images once discarded now revived...

Walking from the level crossing to Solley's ice cream parlour, the wheat field almos ready to harvest. Ripple is near Walmer and Deal, Kent.

The Dungeness Project is a group of artists that travel to that Kent location with the intention to 'reflect' on this unique desert, Derek Jarman and a nuclear power station.

On a side street, an eye catching graffiti in Folkestone old town

Another image that floated past my imagination from time to time and finally has become a 'reality'... I wish to quote here what Megan Jean Duguid writes about this image: "Margate is truly impressive! greens deep, dark, creases and ripples brought forward through a fantastic play of light - but i keep returning here... floating, stilled, breathless - the birthing of a realm solidifying ..."