Satelite view of the images above.
THREE HIGH ALTITUDE LAKES
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From Great Mongeham to Northbourne
The first sunny Sunday in Kent, the day before the lockdown in England
A Kentish sunset
Looking through past images that I had not consider positively, find that there was something in them: this is one of them.
Looking down towards the valley below the Pilgrims Way, on the North Downs.
The palm tree
Walmer and Deal revisited
Three images of the coast around Deal and Walmer
Dungeness
On the 26th April, 2017, I was invite with a number of other artists to take part in a project based around Dungeness.
"The site is quite extraordinary- driftwood and chunks of metal interrupting the flow of a long shingle beach that turns the corner at a vast nuclear power station. The area is covered with shingle and sea plants and includes Derek Jarman's famous garden" in the words of Tim Cousins who organised this event.
This is my take on Dungeness...
The path along Sun Island, Lake Titicaca, Bolivia
A walk from one end of Sun Island to the other, a good 6 hours walk. These images seem better in monochrome
The Grand Shaft, Dover, Kent
The Grand Shaft
Built between 1806-09 the Grand Shaft is a unique triple staircase at Dover. It was used by troops at the Grand Shaft Barracks and the Western Heights fortifications as a shortcut to the town below.
The shaft is 140 feet deep and 26 feet in diameter. The three staircases built of Purbeck Limestone wind clockwise one above the other. In the centre is a light and ventilation shaft which is open at the top and has windows in the sides for the stairways. There are 200 steps altogether separated by several landings. At the bottom the three stairways meet up in a sloping corridor that leads to the Snargate Street entrance.
By 1806 the construction of the shaft was underway. It was difficult to build particularly as the weather was poor making the earthworks in the chalk and clay dangerous. By 1809 the shaft was ready to use.
At the time of its use the stairs were segregated:
1. Officers and their ladies
2. Sergeants and their wives
3. Soldiers and their women
After Petrov-Vodkin
After Kuzma Petrov-Vodkin's Still Life with Glass, Fruit and Picture. 1924
Triptych
A challenge to perception...
The Stairs
Listening to Marvyn Peake's 'Gormenghast'...