Consulting The Map, Doleham Lane I like experimenting with different styles and here once again I am going for the tone of those colour-plate illustrations you find in those old-style adventure classics, the ones that were illustrated by the likes of Howard Pyle or...
A Sense of Plaice – The Stade, Hastings Hastings, one of the ancient original Cinq Port towns along the Sussex-Kent coast, has one of the last, and the largest of the old-fashioned shore-based fishing fleets left in Britain. For more than a thousand years the...
Silvery Dawn – Low Tide at Hastings Pier A combination of clear cold winter light and low tide drew me down to the seafront this morning, and to the broad stretch of shimmering tidal sands just east of the old pier at Hastings. It was just before sunrise when...
Streamline Moderne – St Leonard-on-Sea I love Art Deco and here on the seafront in St Leonards we have a lovely example of it – or rather, its first cousin, Streamline Moderne – in the form of the Marine Court Building, which was, when it opened in...
Through Darkest Sussex II Something about this image reminds me of a colour plate illustration for some old-style adventure story, something illustrated by N.C. Wyeth but with a cyclist instead of pirates or highwaymen. A dense fog settled over the weald during the...
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