Homes & Antiques

Artist in RESIDENCE

‘I’ll never move from here,’ says artist Jo Oakley, looking out across the neighbouring rooftops in the oldest part of Herne Bay. Jo moved to the coast from south-east London some five years ago:

‘I’ve always been drawn to the sea and, while my two daughters were growing up, I had a beach hut in nearby Whitstable where we’d spend every weekend during the summer. Once the girls had left home I started thinking about changing my own surroundings.’ Property in Whitstable is expensive, so Jo decided to look a little

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