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VERY FRESH FISH
This panel celebrates Hastings fishmonger Mick Stanley, who operates one of the famed fish shacks on the Stade. It's animated: the fish wiggle and there is a working zap-o-bug. You can watch a short video of this by clicking here.
THE CROWN INN
I made this panel for a lockdown art competition the pub was running. The butcher's bike at the bottom right refers to the Jimmy Read Memorial bike race, which is held annually up the steep hill alongside the pub.
COPERNICUS
You'll remember that it was Nicolaus Copernicus who, in 1514, proposed a heliocentric model of our solar system. Prior to this, the accepted model of the universe was that all heavenly bodies were embedded in concentric crystal spheres, which rotated around the earth at different speeds. Of course, we now know that the universe revolves around Hastings.
KISS ME QUICK
On the first floor landing of our house, all the doors have small stolen-light windows. This was for our bedroom door.
I SAW THREE CHIPS
I just can't resist a cheap joke! This panel was our Christmas card for 2021.
CHRISTMAS WREATH
This door wreath is made from more than fifty glass holly and ivy leaves, individually slumped into sand moulds, stamped from a wooden former. The leaves are drilled and held in place with copper wire, and lit with an LED string.
LOBSTER AND SCALLOP
This was a recent commission to decorate an interior door in a seaside house.
CUTTER
Hastings was a major centre for smuggling in the 18th century, and many of the finest houses in the Old Town are built on the proceeds of contraband brandy, gin tobacco and tea. This piece recalls the fast cutters that smugglers favoured.
TRUMP
What can I say? I wanted to contrast the US president's hate-filled speech with the nobler aspirations of the founding fathers.
BLOOD OR TREASURE
I made this panel to illustrate the cover of a book I am writing about Hastings pirates and smugglers. As far as I know, the Hastings smugglers didn't have a motto; but if they had, i'm sure it would have been "Blood or Treasure."
SEAGULL
This was a little gift for a sick friend who loves birds. Here in Hastings the gulls get a lot of stick: they are noisy, messy, and they nick your chips. But they are actually fascinating and resourceful birds. They pair for life and return to the same nest sites every year.
BEACH
This panel is about Hastings beach, with its glamourous pier, reliable tides and lovable seagulls. With apologies to Hokusai.
BRAMBLE
My original concept for the right-hand panel of Lillies was to have an unruly bramble take over the window, breaking the border, and becoming increasingly less stylised from left-to-right. However, this approach turned out to be a bit too radical.
LILLIES
This was a commission for an Edwardian house in Warrington. The colours and style echo existing glass in the house.
ALEISTER CROWLEY
Though revered as an occultist, Aleister Crowley was also a poet, a world-class chess player and a pioneering mountaineer. While certainly manipulative, sexually omnivorous and a prolific drug user, his reputation as the personification of evil was entirely unjustified. He died, penniless, in Hastings in 1947.
NOT A DOOR
Our home in Hastings is actually two 17th-century houses knocked into one, so we have two front doors. People always used to call at the wrong door, so I put in this panel to redirect them.
Hark the Herring
... Another panel for Christmas. The background for these singing fish is Hastings' famous net houses
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