Peeling back the layers
Feb 03, 2021
4 minutes
FEATURE KATHRYN REILLY PHOTOGRAPHS JODY STEWART
‘I love to find things other people have thrown away, take another look at them, discovering something beautiful to drive my work’
‘Being Australian, I love the sea and a big horizon,’ says artist and former archaeologist Jane Dickins of her move from London to the seaside town of Deal. ‘London was really making me feel constrained,’ she explains, and discovering Deal’s Georgian streets was a blessing that came at the right time – the result of a chance visit to catch up with a friend. She was struck as much by the quality of light and the big skies as she was by the well-preserved streets. ‘Every house is different andnear the Goodwin Sands just off Deal, and Admiral Nelson was garrisoned in the town – and it seemed like the perfect place to put down roots.
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