Journeys around the Coast

'Journeys around the Coast' are works produced during my intermittent visits from 1997 to 1998 to the south-east coast of England, travelling through Norfolk, Suffolk, Essex, Kent, East Sussex and West Sussex.

“It always begins with a journey - looking for one more possibility. I wandered out into the failing light, hedges line one side of the road, bungalows the other. A red light through a front door catches my eye. I crouch down, putting the camera to the ground, pressing the shutter I hold it for ten seconds or so.”

“As the train pulls out familiarity begins to drop away. The journey encapsulates my dreams and my reality. I then find myself a room overlooking the sea. It is yellow, dark, well worn and grubby, I pull back the curtains and the street lamp casts a vivid green light across the room, and beyond, the dark sea rolls in. I step back...”
- extracts from my notebooks