Dungeness Open Studios

Early - A series of prints

2025-11-19T11:18:00.013+00:00

Very . . . 'EAAAAAARLY . . .'

" Witnessed from my cosy bed, through the doorway (half ajar) out to tharrrr . . ."

Multi block prints on heavy unbleached watercolour paper using oil based inks and lightfast pigments

Print size: 20 cm X 22 cm (Fits a standard sized frame)

Print 1 - ‘Sweeper’ - The lighthouse beam sweeps the beach, La Luna is in charge.

Print #1 - ‘Sweeper’

price: £40_ including secure postage

Print 2 - ‘In the night’ - Searching for convergence.

Print #2 - ‘In the night’

price: £40_ including secure postage - Sent with full provenance

'Beach Dogs'

2025-11-09T11:41:00.003+00:00

Beach Dogs

By the fire at Dungeness_

A group of beach dogs, a force of nature, an intimate exchange.

Oil based ink - Multi-block prints in an elusive pink and Van Dyke brown on Ingres off-white heavy pastel papers

Print dimensions: 12 cm X 18 cm + Generous borders

Price £40.00

Sent with full provenance | UK postage included

‘Saltbox’ - Invisible dream of the architect

2025-09-23T12:43:00.003+01:00

‘Saltbox | Invisible dream of the architect’

Like all our dwellings on this timeless beach, we live within a palimpsest to be . . .

Oil and fine pigments on French linen - Dimensions 34 cm X 28 cm - Wooden stretcher

Sent with full provenance | UK postage included

STACK! - Fishboxes of Dungeness

2025-07-14T08:36:00.008+01:00

STACK!

An arrangement of fishboxes (The vital currency of Dungeness Beach) as seen as an architectural rendering suggestive of: 'The tower of Babel'

Oil on French linen - Dimensions 32 cm X 28 cm - Wooden stretcher

Sent with full provenance | UK postage included

'Sailin’ by’ - A subtle Dungeness painting

2024-12-09T13:06:00.004+00:00

'Sailin’by | Port side'

A subtle Dungeness painting on heavy linen.

This painting suggests a silent passage ‘round the point as witnessed from my windows on Dungeness beach.

A symphony of greys on a heavy duty working linen support.

Size: 42 cm X 31 cm stretcher - Unbleached canvas.
Oil, natural pigments, binders and varnish.

SOLD

DUNGENESS - Feature FONTwork a large compound print

2024-12-08T16:54:00.003+00:00

‘The BIG place’

Large handmade FONTwork relief print, pigments in dispersion on quality papers.

A feature work

Price: £60.00 (includes UK postage)

Sent with full provenance | UK postage included

Shingle Fleurs

2024-11-27T15:18:00.004+00:00

Shingle Fleurs | Unique prints

One-off constructed prints in unique compositions and endless variations of hue.

A thoughtful reverie on the all too brief succession of floral varieties that proceed throughout the year on Dungeness Beach.

All printing inks are CMYK based variations on the previous colour used to make new arrangements of tonality.

Printed on various high quality papers incorporating pressed flower petals, straw or silver flakes.

Size: A3 to fit a standard frame.
All one of a kind prints are signed, titled and dated.
Sent with a full provenance.

Price: £44.00 each - (including secure postage)

* Please stipulate Version A through to G in a note on purchasing *

Hanging arrangement in Studio 2

'LUX | Tidal Flats' - A powerful feature painting

2024-11-27T08:33:00.008+00:00

'LUX | Tidal Flats'

A feature Dungeness painting on unbleached canvas.

This painting suggests a phenomenon as witnessed on the tidal flats of Dungeness beach.

A BLAZING ORB burning through sea fog hovers over the rushing tide.

Size: 56 cm X 56 cm deep stretcher - Unbleached canvas.
Oil, natural pigments, binders and varnishes.

SOLD

'Moonset | Sunrise' - Large Dungeness painting on linen

2024-11-26T16:15:00.004+00:00

'Moonset | Sunrise'

A large, lyrical Dungeness painting on French linen.

This painting suggests a phenomenon as witnessed on Dungeness beach.

The Hunter’s moon in conjunction with a heavy squall in a dramatic winter’s sunrise.

Size: 187 cm X 72 cm deep stretcher - French Linen
Oil, natural pigments, binders and varnishes.

SOLD

Sent with full provenance - UK postage included

Snooper Print - Version II

2024-02-18T15:53:00.005+00:00

'Snooper II'

'Snooper | Et Famille'

As I work in my studio/laboratory - I occasionally feel as if . . . I'm not alone . . .

I look up to find a Snooping herring gull gazing at me through the skylight above my painting wall.

I met this gull 'Brione | Snooper' soon after I arrived to live and work on Dungeness Beach.

I still feed her a quarter of a century later especially, before the storms.

Size: 18 cm X 26 cm - Oil based ink and light fast inks on very high quality European un-bleached rag papers.

Price: £40.00 - (Includes postage)

Sent with full provenance | UK postage included

* SNOOPER * - Two hand coloured versions

2024-02-14T11:00:00.016+00:00

'Snooper'

'Snooper | Brione'

As I work in my studio/laboratory - I occasionally feel as if . . . I'm not alone . . .

I look up to find a Snooping herring gull gazing at me through the skylight above my painting wall.

I met this gull 'Brione | Snooper' soon after I arrived to live and work on Dungeness Beach.

I still feed her a quarter of a century later especially, before the storms.

Size: 18 cm X 26 cm - Oil based ink and light fast inks on very high quality European un-bleached rag papers.

Price: £40.00 - (Includes postage)

Sent with full provenance | UK postage included

'Snooper II'

'Snooper | Et Famille'

As I work in my studio/laboratory - I occasionally feel as if . . . I'm not alone . . .

I look up to find a Snooping herring gull gazing at me through the skylight above my painting wall.

I met this gull 'Brione | Snooper' soon after I arrived to live and work on Dungeness Beach.

I still feed her a quarter of a century later especially, before the storms.

Size: 18 cm X 26 cm - Oil based ink and light fast inks on very high quality European un-bleached rag papers.

Price: £40.00 - (Includes postage)

Sent with full provenance | UK postage included

A poignant - 'Lost Cat' . . .

2024-02-13T11:26:00.003+00:00

'Lost cat | Gatos perdidos'

A Lost Cat in a large landscape.

A heartfelt hand carved image of a 'Lost Cat' inspired from a poignant missing pet flyer stapled to a lamp post in Lydd, seen soon after I arrived to live and work on Dungeness Beach.

Size: 18 cm X 12.5 cm - Oil based ink on very high quality antique Whatman heavy drawing papers.

Price: £26.00 - (Includes postage)

Sent with full provenance | UK postage included

See the original text and Tippex amended (by the cat's owner) flyer image below.

A . . . little black and white heartbreaker

Original photocopy image.

Original text from Lost Cat flyer (telephone number obscured)

Danger | Range - Construction

2024-01-24T11:51:00.009+00:00

Danger | Range

A PAINTERLY CONSTRUCTION

"OF THE BEACH, MADE FROM THE BEACH ITSELF"

A sturdy construction made from beach elements as delivered by Neptune.

Wood + Hazard tape, fixings, paint 28 cm X 22 cm

SOLD

Godzilla and La Luna

2024-01-13T12:06:00.004+00:00

'Godzilla and La Luna'

A painterly musing into the gigantic firmament visible above Dungeness beach.

A pairing of small stretched oil paintings on antique French linen - 16 cm X 11 cm

Price: £80.00 each

Left painting 'La Luna'

Right painting 'Godzilla'

Sent with full provenance | UK postage included

Pitch | Roll - Triptych

2024-01-08T15:08:00.007+00:00

Pitch | Roll - Triptych

Black, Red and White sails - Sailin' by my window . . .

A Dungeness archetype.

A textural construction, 3 antique nautical panels

Oil, beeswax, pigments on wood + fixings and varnishes

90 cm x 48 cm

SOLD

'TOR' - Large feature painting

2023-12-28T13:45:00.002+00:00

'TOR' - Large Dungeness feature painting - Oil and pigments on French linen

An emblem of Dungeness rendered as warm, spectacular evening 'long light'

Size: 187 cm X 72 cm deep stretcher - French Linen

Oil, natural pigments, binders and varnishes.

Price: £360.00

Sent with full provenance | UK postage included

'Winter Lux' - Large Dungeness painting on linen

2023-12-08T14:30:00.007+00:00

'Winter Lux'

A large, lyrical Dungeness painting on French linen.

Size: 187 cm X 72 cm deep stretcher - French Linen

Oil, natural pigments, binders and varnishes.

SOLD

Sent with full provenance | UK postage included

A new direction | A curated collection from Dungeness Open Studios

2023-09-17T07:46:00.177+01:00

Dungeness Studio Four Apparel

and accessories

Wearable | Practical | Beautiful

This new range from the Studios features the celebrated DUNGENESS FONT RX12 and associated fine art prints and paintings by Paddy Hamilton.

The DUNGENESS FONT RX12 is a unique, hand-carved font.

Tee shirts

The 'Dungeness Font' tee is 100% cotton and designed to be stylish, comfortable and cool.

From a collection curated by Paddy Hamilton, the 'Dungeness Font' tee celebrates the full-caps fishermen's script found on sale boards at Dungeness beach in Kent, UK.

It's a soft, comforting high-quality garment.

Please click on the links below each garment for description and sizes or you can browse the full shop here: Dungeness Studio Four online shop

*Bespoke designs? Email hamilton.paddy@gmail.com (Small fee for initial design consultation) Thereafter: Regular price*

‘The Story’ of the DUNGENESS FONT – RX12 – * SCROLL DOWN*

THE 'DUNGENESS FONT' RANGE

Purchase here: Men's DUNGENESS FONT black long-sleeved cotton tee shirt

Purchase here: Men's 'Dungeness Font' red long-sleeved tee

Purchase here: Men's 'Dungeness Font' charcoal grey long-sleeved tee shirt

Purchase here: Men's 'Dungeness Font' white long-sleeved tee shirt

Purchase here: Men's 'Dungeness Font' light grey long-sleeved tee

Purchase here: Men's 'Dungeness Font' navy long-sleeved tee

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Purchase here: 'Dungeness Font' ladies black tee shirt

Purchase here: 'Dungeness Font' ladies white tee shirt

Purchase here: 'Dungeness Font' ladies fuchsia tee shirt

'RENEGADE' RANGE

Purchase here: 'Dungeness Font' Renegade red long-sleeved tee shirt

PIRATE | BUCCANEER RANGE

Purchase here: 'Pirate | Buccaneer' long-sleeved tee shirt

PIRATE – HEART ON SLEEVE

Purchase here: 'D. Jones' long-sleeved tee shirt

Purchase here: The 'D. Jones' black long-sleeved tee

Purchase here: The 'D. Jones' navy long-sleeved tee

Purchase here: The 'Davy Jones ROCKA' black long-sleeved tee

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THE ROCK!CHIC RANGE

Purchase here: The 'ROCK!CHIC' royal blue tee

Purchase here: The 'ROCK!CHIC' navy blue tee

Purchase here: The 'ROCK!CHIC' black tee

'LOST CAT' RANGE

Purchase here: 'Lost Cat' long-sleeved tee

Purchase here: 'Lost Cat' with font long-sleeved tee

Purchase here: The 'Lost Cat in Font' tee

Purchase here: 'THE LOST CAT' long-sleeved tee

Purchase here: 'The Lost Cat' ladies white tee

Purchase here: 'The Lost Cat in Font' ladies white tee

THE 'TANGENT' RANGE

Purchase here: 'I Love Plants' green sweatshirt

Purchase here: 'I Love Plants' pocket green sweatshirt

Purchase here: The 'Dungeness Combi' men's white tee

Purchase here: The 'Dungeness Combi' ladies white tee

CHILDREN'S RANGE

Purchase here: The 'Dungeness Font' children's black tee

Purchase here: The 'Dungeness Font' children's fuchsia tee

Purchase here: The 'Dungeness Font' children's blue tee

Purchase here: The 'Pirate | Buccaneer' children's black tee

Purchase here: The 'Pirate | Buccaneer' children's white tee

Purchase here: The 'Pirate | Buccaneer' children's fuchsia tee

Purchase here: The 'Pirate | Buccaneer' children's green tee

Purchase here: The 'Pirate | Buccaneer' children's blue tee

Purchase here: The 'Pirate | Buccaneer' children's red tee

Purchase here: The 'Lost cat' children's white tee

MUGS

Purchase here: The 'Dungeness Font' black-handled mug

Purchase here: 'Dungeness Font' mug

BAGS

Purchase here: The 'Dungeness Font' organic black tote bag

‘The Story’ of the DUNGENESS FONT - RX12

By Bridget Wilkins - (22nd September 2023)

Let’s talk t-shirts! Less than two weeks ago Paddy (aka @dungenessopenstudios) and I were chatting about his Dungeness Font. It was originally inspired by the For Sale boards selling bait or lug etc. on the beach, which were painted in capital letters. Paddy had wanted to celebrate that clear and authentic voice so he created a font in individual linocuts. So that’s all the letters of the alphabet, punctuation, numerals and the odd skull and crossbones carved in lino, then printed, each with the correct kerning. I mean, it took months to make. The resulting font was then digitalised by Andy Sullivan and is available as a download under a Creative Commons licence — this means only Paddy can use it commercially. ANYWAY, the printed linocut font artworks sell in the studios but they are big (usually nine letters in blocks of three), so quite niche. There has been some renewed interest in the font recently and we realised we should make better use of the digital version, so … I found a print-on-demand t-shirt supplier and sent across some designs, and we waited for delivery. The results were outstanding. The font looks incredible on shirts, and on mugs and tote bags! Paddy put up some posts online and suddenly we were inundated with orders! It’s been a bit crazy to be honest! We set up a shop in the blog — link in the bio of @dungeness_studio4 — and we are adding new designs and ideas. We will also offer bespoke t-shirts for a small design fee. They are super comfortable and soft to wear and they do not have itchy labels, which is a real bugbear of mine! As I have said, we are not making these in a back room ourselves, we have a supplier (@tshirtstudiocom) and when you place an order, you do so direct with them. That said, we will have some stock here for people visiting the studios and if we don’t have your size, we can place an order for you that will be sent to your home address.

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R&O
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R Shed - Dungeness painting

2022-07-29T13:23:00.001+01:00

R SHED

A much loved shed, a skilful brush and wash painting on linen

Pigments and binders on stretched French linen

Dimensions: 32 cm X 26 cm - wooden stretcher

SOLD

Brave and Splendid - A diptych painting on linen

2022-07-29T13:06:00.004+01:00

Brave | Splendid

A lyrical diptych painting on linen evoking the distant shore before the water and the land rising away from the beach

Oil, beeswax and pigments on stretched French linen

Dimensions: 36 cm X 26 cm X 2 - wooden stretcher

Overall dimensions: 36 cm X 57 cm (including the gap between the stretchers)

SOLD

Sent with full provenance | UK postage included

The Big Everything | On The Line

2022-05-20T09:21:00.002+01:00

The Big Everything | On The Line

A lyrical feature painting on linen evoking the distant last ridge before the water.

Oil, beeswax and pigments on stretched linen.

Dimensions: 97 cm X 71 cm - wooden stretcher

SOLD

Sent with full provenance | UK postage included

2022-03-29T09:31:00.003+01:00

A feature painting

'On the line'

A thoughtful feature painting - Oil and Cadmiun pigments on a deep linen stretcher

dimensions: 30 cm X 32 cm

Sold

La Luna 6 - feature painting

2022-01-11T10:36:00.004+00:00

La Luna 6 - A feature painting

A thoughtful feature painting - Oil and pigments on a deep linen stretcher

dimensions: 30 cm X 35 cm

SOLD

Odin and Grace – 2 X linocut versions on fine papers

2021-12-26T15:52:00.001+00:00

Odin and Grace

The birds appropriate the modernist structures as if their primary function is to operate as their 'cliff top' perch.

Odin and Grace – Oil based Payne's grey ink on Straw paper

Size: 22 cm X 18 cm (Version #1) price: £40_

Odin and Grace – Oil based Payne's grey ink on Flower paper

Size: 22 cm X 18 cm (Version #2) price: £40_

The UK Cardboarders' Collective - A Show at Dungeness Open Studios

2021-05-24T10:45:00.016+01:00

UK Cardboarders’ Collective

Dates:

*Extended until Sunday the 1st of August*

Location:

Dungeness Open Studios, Dungeness,

Kent TN29 9ND

*

Updated 27th June 2021

Below you will find images from each exhibiting artist.

These are a glimpse of individual takes from each member of the collective.

This is the first time ever (as far as we are aware) of artists working together with cardboard, in order to mitigate the soul-destroying effects of the plague!

Press release, project description, bios and statements follow, below these images.

Andrew Ashton

Marc Christmas

Andrew Revell

Paddy Hamilton

Bridget Wilkins

Martin Heron

Helen Gillilan

'Echo'

'War torn'

'Soap Box'

Matt Rowe

Fraser Donachie

Why cardboard?

Paddy Hamilton explains.

During the dark days of lockdown, I noticed three things:

1. The house was filled with packaging, more of which arrived daily.

2. Art materials were becoming more expensive.

3. The need to ‘carry on’ making and conjuring up work as before seemed unnecessary.

I thought: ‘What is it that surrounds me?’ then decided to embrace that which I had a lot of. So: cardboard.

Distinctive, warm, freeing, reliable, standardised, malleable, exotic, sturdy, strong/rigid, ubiquitous, reassuring, clean, durable, friendly, versatile, anticipatory, authentic, nostalgic, textural, universal, tinted, stylish and ‘boxy’.

Cardboard as a creative medium has a long and distinguished history in art. The movement known as arte povera elevated ‘poor materials’ for very good reasons. See: https://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Arte_Povera

Cardboard was a preferred medium for Toulouse Lautrec, Degas, Braque, Rauschenberg, Tapies et al.

As I started to explore ‘the cardboard’, I noted other artists became interested and supportive of the obviously freeing processes resulting from this focus. From this grew the UK Cardboarders Collective, with cardboard itself as the primary manifesto…

Exhibitors:

Andrew Ashton

Artist and curator of this exhibition

Statement – The Amazon Housing Project

I have always been intrigued by the models that architects make to illustrate a proposal for a building project. I wanted to use Amazon cardboard packaging to produce my own small scale architectural sculpture, based on the idea of imaginary architecture, created from waste cardboard. I have called this series of work “The Amazon Housing Project”, what I wanted to achieve (I think) is to:

1) Make Sculptures of imaginary housing.

2) Reflect on Amazon as a multinational company.

3) Recycle, in a creative way, the cardboard packaging used by Amazon.

4) Enjoy the different qualities of cardboard, building with it, its texture, printed graphics and colour.

5) Give a “new life” to a throwaway material.

6) Think about affordable housing.

I’m also experimenting with making pulp out of Amazon packaging, in a sense returning it to its original state and creating something new from it.

I teach Art History, make Ceramics, Sculpture, Paintings and Constructions.

Recent exhibitions:

Fountain Gallery East Molesey – Ceramics

Folkestone Triennial Open Exhibition – Paintings

Dungeness Open Studios – Ceramics and Constructions

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Marc Christmas

Photographer and visual artist

I live on the South Coast and alongside my practice as an artist I currently lecture in photography at Higher Education level.

I work primarily with historical photographic processes (salt prints, albumen, photogenic) with uncertain outcomes. Employing large format cameras and experimental, analogue techniques.

This is a Cardboard panic attack!

I champion the beauty of cardboard, the found and reused, and its plainness.

These works explore pure photographic aesthetic explorations on the surface through the structure, and manipulations of the texture itself, instead of preserving all of its visual recognisability. Transforming its visual quality into the photographic imagery. Using traditional photographic materials, chemistry and processes.

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Fraser Donachie

Artist

My name is Fraser. I suffer from a strong sense of ‘imposter syndrome’; I rarely regard myself as an artist. However, I achieved an art O-level in 1982 and enjoy printmaking and painting.

Cardboard’s disposable nature makes it vulnerable to guilt-free abuse. So I’ve tried to treat it with irreverence and disdain. I love the simple childish pleasure of cutting cardboard with a large pair of scissors. I’ve been using very traditional high quality materials to date, which breeds preciousness. Using this humble, invariably brown, material has injected a new freedom into my making and I thank it for that.

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Helen Gillilan

Artist

Helen Gillilan was born in Cornwall and attended the Foundation Course at Plymouth Art College in the 1970s. In the mid-nineties she resumed her art education – studying Theatre Design at Rose Bruford School of Speech and Drama in London.

She hosted her first solo show at Bridport Art Centre, followed by inclusion in several group shows at SW galleries. In 1993 she travelled to Chile as Field Artist with a Raleigh International Expedition – with another solo show at The Collaton Gallery before moving to London to study theatre design in 1995. She continued to paint and show through her college course at Spitalfields Art market and a solo show at Greenwich Theatre.

After college she worked with Paddy Hamilton at his London studio and then the pair moved to Dungeness and established Dungeness Open Studios. After her mother’s death in 2001, Helen purchased lovely Ocean View, Dungeness and opened her studio gallery there in 2016. Work can be viewed at the gallery or online at ocean-view-studio.com.

Cardboard

I didn’t see myself as a constructor until I was called upon to build model boxes for theatre designs – and at first, I was daunted by the prospect. Then I realised that I could include all manner of found and everyday things to make the elements that I needed – a little pram fashioned from a favourite face cream tube, chairs and tables in 1/25 made from found pieces of wood or cardboard...Cardboard – The Mainstay – and these models in entirety were the expressions of undercurrents, shadows, the unspoken and implied metaphors.

This winter I tackled lampshade making, which I had wanted to do for ages, and found that backed paper was an effective building material for them. As a natural progression...I leapt at the chance to show with the UK Cardboarders’ Collective...Good timing!

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Paddy Hamilton

Fine Artist

Born in Kitwe, Zambia. Formative years spent in Botswana.

Education - Manchester Polytechnic (Foundation) and Chelsea School of Art. Founder of Dungeness Open Studios. Works on and with the endless fascination of Dungeness Beach.

Has shown extensively in the UK and internationally.

See above for intentions re: this exhibition.

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Martin Heron

Sculptor

Born in Co.Tyrone, Northern Ireland, leaving in the mid 80’s to attend art college in Liverpool.

For the past 25 years I have focused on making art for public spaces throughout the UK and Ireland working across art forms to engage communities in the creative process. A member of Royal Society of Sculptors and The London Group, one of the UK's longest running artist-led collectives.

Currently working on a large, commissioned project for Knowsley Council to produce major landmark sculptural works for four gateway locations around Prescot. The works are linked to Prescot’s heritage with connections to the Shakespeare North Theatre currently under construction in the town.

Previous commissions and exhibitions include award winning bronze work at the Alley Arts Centre in Strabane, Northern Ireland along with public commissioned work across the UK. Work has been exhibited in various galleries and alternative venues in the UK, Europe and Canada.

On working with cardboard:

Drawing and experimentation have formed the backbone of my practice so this opportunity to explore cardboard and make work for this exhibition has provided an interesting challenge and one I am still working through.

I have mixed feelings about cardboard thus far.

It is not a material I would usually turn to unless building some clunky play armour for my son or a den/tunnel system for him to crawl around in. These things are never precious and tend to get battered very quickly!

At the moment I am lost in cutting, slicing, tearing and drilling the stuff with varying degrees of success.

Possibilities unfold the more I explore so am expecting some unusual outcomes for consideration.

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Andrew Revell

Sculptor

Typically my first “sculpture” memory was made in clay; a very elegantly modelled Brontosaurus, however the second was a cardboard Tiger, fashioned from various domestic discards – an altogether more characterful boxy cubist fella, slathered in black and yellow tempera with smartie disc eyes!

Then the die was cast; material and method stuck from an early age and the role of “Constructor” became the modus operandi for my life to follow.

Whether hacked-at cartons or fancy acid free sheets the humble card is my preferred material for the exploring, rendering and solving of three dimensional problems – despite having absorbed the world of digital 3d modelling for commissions and designs, at some point there will be a series of cardboard models in the real world – that childhood facility to sort it out with a craft knife and some tape never fails to find a variation or pull a complex project together.

Of course, for over a year we have been tethered to our homes and bubbles, I’ve been lucky as an artist that this suits me to a degree, but my foraging for objects and metals at the stockholder and scrapyard
has been curtailed – replaced by a new material source in my hallway, a familiar stack of cartons and packets from the post bringing the books and records to get me through the lockdown.

Inspired by my other Cardboarders I’ve been getting stuck into this pile of boxes to transform it into some sculptures, but this time not in the service of a problem-solving maquette medium but an opportunity to play
and improvise in the spirit of that boxy animal long ago.

Graduating from Art College in Gloucestershire some 30 years ago Andrew’s 3d career embraces medical sculpture, product design, public art commissions, a parallel life as a theatre carpenter and sculpture
tutor. Since 2008 he has worked from ACAVA studios in Acton, London, regularly exhibiting and undertaking commissions. He is represented in the UK by Noon-Powell Fine Art.

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Matt Rowe (aka Go Go Whippet)

Artist

Matt Rowe’s background in contemporary art and craft ensures that specialist creative skill sets can be tailored to suit any audience, working either to a brief or self directed.

Go Go Whippet workshops deliver engaging themes and activities that encourage participants of all ages to generate ideas and discussion through making.

With over 12 years' experience of developing and delivering professional engagement strategies, Go Go Whippet is able to provide consultancy on approaches to community cohesion in areas of urban regeneration.

Matt explains his approach to cardboard:

Early memories of creativity are interwoven with the pleasure of receiving an empty cardboard shoe box or cereal packet.

Securing these basic materials provided a resource with infinite construction possibilities.

While inspecting, grading and preparing cardboard for construction, I distinctly remember the moment I discovered the fascinating printer’s calibration marks hidden beneath the glued sections.

Like a rare Byzantium gemstone, their rarity in contrast with the volume of the cardboard elevated them beyond the rest of the material.

In honour of their scarcity and undisputed beauty, I have crafted a crown worthy of their cardboard majesty.

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Bridget Wilkins

Artist-in-training and administrator at Dungeness Open Studios

For this show my intention was to create work that evokes the sense of being pushed in a certain trajectory by external forces such as the weather or the pandemic.

The benefits of working with 95% cardboard are that it offers limitless scope to create something that doesn’t conform to the traditional practices of paint, printing and sculpture. It is a friendly medium and a non-competitive art form that can be enjoyed without peer pressure or competition.

Selected exhibitions:

Southcoasters: The Old Lockup Gallery, Cromford, Derbyshire. August 2016.

Various: Dungeness Open Studios. Ongoing.

Some thoughts:

Cardboard is an intrinsic part of our lives which is largely overlooked and under-appreciated. We tear through the cardboard to seek out the treasures it holds within. We toss it aside, we burn it, we stamp on it, we rip it up.

With this show we celebrate cardboard. It’s versatile, it’s reliable and it can be transformed from something disposable into something thought-provoking, striking and near-permanent.

Note: all works in the show are made to be linked by a loose and friendly directive – to be constructed using 95% cardboard_

Link to PDF of press release:

https://documentcloud.adobe.com/link/track?uri=urn:aaid:scds:US:7b93f9fc-5857-402e-8450-7d8098ed47ed

Dungeness Open Studios

Early - A series of prints

Very . . . 'EAAAAAARLY . . .'

" Witnessed from my cosy bed, through the doorway (half ajar) out to tharrrr . . ."

Print 1 - ‘Sweeper’ - The lighthouse beam sweeps the beach, La Luna is in charge.

Print 2 - ‘In the night’ - Searching for convergence.

'Beach Dogs'

Beach Dogs

By the fire at Dungeness_

A group of beach dogs, a force of nature, an intimate exchange.

Oil based ink - Multi-block prints in an elusive pink and Van Dyke brown on Ingres off-white heavy pastel papers

Print dimensions: 12 cm X 18 cm + Generous borders

Price £40.00

‘Saltbox’ - Invisible dream of the architect

‘Saltbox | Invisible dream of the architect’

STACK! - Fishboxes of Dungeness

STACK!

'Sailin’ by’ - A subtle Dungeness painting

'Sailin’by | Port side'

A subtle Dungeness painting on heavy linen.

This painting suggests a silent passage ‘round the point as witnessed from my windows on Dungeness beach.

A symphony of greys on a heavy duty working linen support.

Size: 42 cm X 31 cm stretcher - Unbleached canvas.

Oil, natural pigments, binders and varnish.

DUNGENESS - Feature FONTwork a large compound print

‘The BIG place’

Shingle Fleurs

Shingle Fleurs | Unique prints

* Please stipulate Version A through to G in a note on purchasing *

'LUX | Tidal Flats' - A powerful feature painting

'LUX | Tidal Flats'

A feature Dungeness painting on unbleached canvas.

This painting suggests a phenomenon as witnessed on the tidal flats of Dungeness beach.

A BLAZING ORB burning through sea fog hovers over the rushing tide.

Size: 56 cm X 56 cm deep stretcher - Unbleached canvas.

Oil, natural pigments, binders and varnishes.

'Moonset | Sunrise' - Large Dungeness painting on linen

'Moonset | Sunrise'

A large, lyrical Dungeness painting on French linen.

This painting suggests a phenomenon as witnessed on Dungeness beach.

The Hunter’s moon in conjunction with a heavy squall in a dramatic winter’s sunrise.

Size: 187 cm X 72 cm deep stretcher - French Linen

Oil, natural pigments, binders and varnishes.

SOLD

Snooper Print - Version II

'Snooper II'

'Snooper | Et Famille'

As I work in my studio/laboratory - I occasionally feel as if . . . I'm not alone . . .

I look up to find a Snooping herring gull gazing at me through the skylight above my painting wall.

I met this gull 'Brione | Snooper' soon after I arrived to live and work on Dungeness Beach.

I still feed her a quarter of a century later especially, before the storms.

Size: 18 cm X 26 cm - Oil based ink and light fast inks on very high quality European un-bleached rag papers.

Price: £40.00 - (Includes postage) Sent with full provenance | UK postage included

* SNOOPER * - Two hand coloured versions

'Snooper'

'Snooper | Brione'

As I work in my studio/laboratory - I occasionally feel as if . . . I'm not alone . . .

I look up to find a Snooping herring gull gazing at me through the skylight above my painting wall.

I met this gull 'Brione | Snooper' soon after I arrived to live and work on Dungeness Beach.

I still feed her a quarter of a century later especially, before the storms.

Size: 18 cm X 26 cm - Oil based ink and light fast inks on very high quality European un-bleached rag papers.

Price: £40.00 - (Includes postage) Sent with full provenance | UK postage included

'Snooper II'

'Snooper | Et Famille'

As I work in my studio/laboratory - I occasionally feel as if . . . I'm not alone . . .

I look up to find a Snooping herring gull gazing at me through the skylight above my painting wall.

I met this gull 'Brione | Snooper' soon after I arrived to live and work on Dungeness Beach.

I still feed her a quarter of a century later especially, before the storms.

Size: 18 cm X 26 cm - Oil based ink and light fast inks on very high quality European un-bleached rag papers.

Price: £40.00 - (Includes postage) Sent with full provenance | UK postage included

A poignant - 'Lost Cat' . . .

'Lost cat | Gatos perdidos'

A Lost Cat in a large landscape.

A heartfelt hand carved image of a 'Lost Cat' inspired from a poignant missing pet flyer stapled to a lamp post in Lydd, seen soon after I arrived to live and work on Dungeness Beach.

Size: 18 cm X 12.5 cm - Oil based ink on very high quality antique Whatman heavy drawing papers.

Price: £26.00 - (Includes postage) Sent with full provenance | UK postage included

See the original text and Tippex amended (by the cat's owner) flyer image below.

*A . . . little black and white heartbreaker*

Original photocopy image.

Original text from Lost Cat flyer (telephone number obscured)

Price: £40.00 - (Includes postage)

Sent with full provenance | UK postage included

Price: £40.00 - (Includes postage)

Sent with full provenance | UK postage included

Price: £40.00 - (Includes postage)

Sent with full provenance | UK postage included

Price: £26.00 - (Includes postage)

Sent with full provenance | UK postage included

A . . . little black and white heartbreaker