Night Fitties 2018 -2022
The series of paintings Night Fitties explore the play of light and dark and the uncanny transformations of the chalets on the Humberston Fitties that take place after hours as well as notions of vulnerability, precarity, occupation and emptiness. The work considers, in the shadow of recent dramatic political changes, how notions of place and identity are constructed on domestic and larger scales, as reflected by the play on flags and other indications of Englishness.. They investigate the relation of social, environmental and energy politics on micro and macro scales, looking out to land and sea and back to the community.

Why destroy a thing of beauty? 60 cm x 80 cm, oil on linen, 2019

They'd have a party and everyone would come? 60 cm x 80 cm, oil on linen, 2019

And we’d walk down here to the beach 60 cm x 80 cm, oil on linen, 2019

It really did used to be like this 60 cm x 80 cm, oil on linen, 2019

Do not walk on the grass verge 60 cm x 80 cm, oil on linen, 2019

Night Fitties You knew what you had and how long you had it Oil on Canvas. 76cm x 101cm 2018

Night Fitties: We’re all very close round here Oil on Canvas. 76cm x 101cm 2018

Nothing was here, it was all open to the beach oil on linen. 60 cm x 80 cm, 2019

I only come here when the weather's good oil on linen 60 x 80 cm 2019

I don’t like being in a house (for CC) oil on linen 60 x 80 cm 2021

It's been so silent, no traffic, how it would have been, the sky bluer,
oil on linen, 120 x 160 cm 2021

Night Fitties: You've got the air here, even if you can't get to the sea
oil on linen, 30 x 40 cm 2020

Night Fitties: We’ve been very lucky here. Oil on linen, 30 x 40 cm 2021

Night Fitties: we’re too far apart to really connect 30 x 40 cm 2021
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Night Fitties: everyone’s walking past, oil on canvas 30 cm x 40 cm 2021

Hideaway: seasonal dwelling, oil on linen 30 x 40 cm 2022

Hideaway: timber-framed, oil on linen 30 x 40 cm 2022

Hideaway: weekend bungalow, oil on linen 30 x 40 cm 2022

Night Fitties: hideaway, oil on linen, 120 x 160 cm, 2022

Night Fitties: a full day out for next to nothing, oil on linen, 120 x 160 cm, 2022