“I was chatting to a curator who recently moved to Margate in
Kent where the genesis of the idea for this series of paintings
began. She mentioned how that area of Kent, including Margate,
Broadstairs, and Ramsgate, used to be detached from the
mainland; it was only in the 1600s that the river that separated
the Isle of Thanet with the UK silted up and joined the two
together. People who live in that part of the United Kingdom still
refer to that area as ‘the