Once I had decided on my brief I went back home for the weekend as I live in Kent and it would be easier and quicker to get to Margate from there. So I set off early doors on Sunday with my girlfriend and headed to Margate to familiarised with the place as well as
venturing around the town to places I had not been to. Wile walking around it
was quick to notice that a lot of the town was full of closed down shops and
boarded up and appeared to of been left to rot. And many of the places I
remember as a kid have either been knocked down or boarded up. So on my travels
I was taking a lot of photos to record the extent of the issue but as well as
just taking photos I decided to produce a few on site sketches with my brush
pen, I decided to draw a variety of different places showing some closed down
shops, the closed down and abandoned theme park and deserted beach. I think
that by using this type of media to produce these images it gives them a very
cold, dark and ghostly feeling.
After we had taken pictures and been everywhere in Margate
we decided to drive to its neighbouring town of Ramsgate to get lunch. We
thought while we were in Ramsgate we might as well have a look around the town
and beach. On the seafront where they are building a new hotel they have
boarded it off and on these boards were a selection of pieces of art which
consisted of images of Ramsgate and other seaside based things which I was greatly
inspired by.
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