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Tag: Newhaven

  • Seaford’s Shingle Shore Saves Streets

    Seaford’s Shingle Shore Saves Streets

    I was finishing a triptych of drawings based in the colours from the images taken on a visit to this killing ground of WW1. In Verdun birds still don’t sing. Over half a million men died there and the ground remains sacred to the French nation today. The visit was made in 2001 when digital…

  • Seeing Seaford’s Sunset on the Sea Shore

    Seeing Seaford’s Sunset on the Sea Shore

    Dad taught me to see, taught me to draw. He had an artistic side that rarely found any outlet. He did a little marquetry but enjoyed teaching me how to image a ship’s bow looming up, how to image a Spitfire wing growing realistically off a fuselage.

  • The Outsider – A Perpetual Watcher.

    The Outsider – A Perpetual Watcher.

    I was brought up a ‘service brat’. When your father is in the services you move every three years or so. But you are not alone in this, all the kids in the married quarters around you have dads whose postings rarely coincide with yours. So you make friends, grow together for maybe eighteen months…

  • Seaford Seashore Shingle Shovelled

    Seaford Seashore Shingle Shovelled

    Seaford’s seashore is a single shingle bank. Not a beach it seems but actually Seaford’s sea defence system. Some say this sea defence was made necessary by the extensions to Newhaven harbour, and the wakes of the larger vessels going in to the port which scoured away the previous sandy beach. Whatever the reason as…