Another product of habitual daily activity, The Promenader is a series of images made over several years during regular walks along Portobello Promenade. Like many artists, I often like to work with my immediate surroundings and what I know best. One way or another, I have now been making work on Portobello Promenade for over four decades. For the last twenty-five years I have been fortunate enough to have the promenade virtually on my doorstep.

This work, with a textual contribution by Alan Spence, is primarily intended for publication as a book. Its sensibility is that of a visual lyric poem with certain recurring, cross-referring motifs. Through sequencing and juxtaposition, seemingly dissimilar scenarios are played off against each other, sometimes the ‘sublime’ and ‘quotidian’ appearing cheek by jowl, mutually defining. And we are reminded throughout of the sea as permanent backdrop to this diverse, yet inextricably linked manifestation.