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| Dungeness: two figures on a shoreline |
The
Travels with My Architect series continues into 2015 with Trevor and I driving
to the Kent coast, to Dungeness, Britain’s only desert. Trevor’s wife Jane (architect and landscape gardener)
joined primarily to see Derek Jarman’s cottage.
It
was Jarman’s cottage that started a movement: of some 500,000 people who
annually now come to this out of the way, incredibly flat landscape with its
two power stations. And last year, so Dungeness Ranger Owen, told us there were
143 film or photo-shoots taking advantage of shingle beach, rusting boat
winches and close to collapsing fishing huts.
This
is the stuff of art. Some of the houses that line the single road are now
galleries and those with taste and sensitivity have breathed on their
single-storey homes.
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| Dungeness a memory of yellows and greys |
Grey
skies, a stiff breeze made for the perfect weather for this place, which is not
without its amenities.
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| Art House Dungeness: Paddy Hamilton's Galleries |
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