Similarly the other paintings are postcards from places that I’d like to visit (if they existed). The longer I work in London the more I seem to yearn for the countryside and the seaside. As a child I lived for a while in Dymchurch, the home of Dr Syn and I think the scarecrow and the smugglers must have affected me quite deeply. My paintings all seem to have their roots in this dark mystery. We spent all of our family holidays on the South Coast of Cornwall, a county that is awash with mysterious goings on and history. One only has to visit Dozemary pool near to Jamaica Inn to appreciate this fully. In addition the earlier squares and rectangles have survived to lend a “stained glass” appearance to the paintings. Churches also appear in many of the paintings, references perhaps to “other” powers surrounding us. If one looks at the paintings closely I hope that the narrative elements become quite clear. There are definitely things going on but the perpetrators are hidden. However, there is no definitive reading of the paintings, I have my ideas but I’d prefer to leave it up to you to work out your own story.
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