My initial idea for this project was to
produce work that I could put on to a shop shutter, and when I went to Margate
we visited its neighbouring town of Ramsgate afterwards and where they are
building a new hotel on the beach they have boarded it off. On these boards
there are loads of pieces of art done by individual people. I thought that size
wise it would be a more appropriate way to produce my idea. I began drawing a
variety of thumbnails that consisted of activities you can do in Margate, a few
images of dreamland, traditional seaside items and classic pin-up girls. My
reasons for using pin-up girls were that I believe they are very classy subject
and were used a lot during the 50’s to promote certain things, and it was at
this time where Margate was in its glory days. So I decided to use the term in
order to go forwards you must go back, and by this mean I wanted to use a very
retro subject and revamp it. I finally settled on having a pin-up girl in a
bathing suit, in order to not be rude or just appealing to men, laying on Margate
beach with ‘ visit Margate’, above her.
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