Dungeness

Stark and foreboding, wild and wonderful, there’s just something special about this massive stretch of shingle beach on Kent’s most southernly coastline  - you either love it or hate it. Like some post-apocalyptic landscape with disused fisherman’s huts and abandoned boats strewn across the ever expanding land up to the imposing nuclear power station, it’s certainly an awe inspiring place. From amazing ‘Grand Designs’ inspired modern architecture to Derek Jarman’s wonderfully poetic Prospect Cottage, it has been cleaned up lately but there’s still so much for the curiously minded.

Part of my progression is to create a series of prints using the reduction method which is a multi-layered  print using only one block - sometimes known as ‘suicide’ printing. Once you’ve started there’s no going back as mistakes are hard to rectify so you have to plan and carve meticulously. 

First of the series is ‘that shed’ as someone once describe it. It was the icon to photograph as a memento of Dungeness, it’s now completely flattened either by the extreme elements or part of that tidying up process - wonderful to have the opportunity to capture it in print before it was gone forever.