Without going into great detail, after taking up my own studio in a community of 35 spaces near Colchester, i decided that my development was better assisted by not completing my final year at Art School, but to apply myself to my own work.
Around the same time, it became possible to take on a great adventure, to make a life afloat, and eventually have an old yacht equipped to be mostly autonomous, and explore fresh places, and inspire art and writing, alternating with studio time.
So, now, i find myself in the most Westerly tip of Brittany, a gorgeous wild coast, full of theatre of sky, sea, rearing cliffs and reefs, and rapidly changing weather extremes.
Berthed in the unpretentious little harbour of Cabaret-sur-Mer, which has attracted artists for over a century. It is twinned with Cornwall's St Ives, though i'd say the quality of light here is even better.
It has been hard to find time to do much more than sketch and photograph, but its all mill to the grist, will come to plat soon enough.
