The Romney Marsh Project is an ongoing exploration of 100 square miles of coastal marshland in East Sussex and Kent. It encompasses a multitude of disciplines including but not limited to paintings, photography, drawings, film footage, audio recordings, and dioramas.

Technically the area of Romney Marsh is sub-divided into Romney Marsh, Denge Marsh, and Walland Marsh, the Rother Levels, and disputed smaller areas. The project focuses primarily on the Walland Marsh. After moving to nearby Rye in 2016 I became beguiled by the bleak yet green industrial landscape stretching from the town’s citadel to the nuclear power station at Dungeness. Walland Marsh was reclaimed from the English Channel several hundred years ago and became a working landscape largely devoid of human occupation. In many ways it is a man-made landscape despite owing its origins to a huge storm in the 13th Century, which let to the lagoon becoming land. Drains, known as ‘sewers’ criss-cross the landscape and pylons bisect everything. A few arterial roads stream between settlements, and the railway makes a rough mark of the old coastline, but the landscape is otherwise handed over to sheep and rapeseed.

The artworks in this project reflect individual facets of my exploration but they also reflect wider social and environmental themes.