Flints Collection

The Flint Collection is a meditative body of work portraying Sussex cliffs and seabed rock in canvas studies. The collection combines, recreating the layers of rock that have come into being over thousands of years.

One summers evening at Seven Sisters in Sussex, the tide was in and looking back at the cliff face, was inspired by the flints embedded in the chalk face of the cliff, Where time and erosion exposes remnants of ancient times. This interpretation of coastal painting, invites the viewer to look a little deeper at the familiar, challenging our preconceptions.

Each flint takes 70 to a 100 million years to become the forms we see today.

Silica of which the flint is composed was derived from the skeletons of sponges inhabiting the seas in which chalk or other limestone deposits were laid down and compressed over time.

Many of the first prehistoric tools were carved out of flint because of its durability. Flint can become razor sharp and is second only to the hardness of a diamond.

The study of flint knapping, a now rare craft of skilfully shaping rocks has enriched and influenced the qualities within the paintings.