Chris Amies art

Acrylic ink, 2024. This is monochromatic – using only raw umber acrylic ink. I’m quite pleased with the results although the main body of the church is wrongly proportioned – it should be longer. I seem to like buildings like this, whether in good repair like this one, or derelict.

St Thomas a Becket Church (usually referred to as ‘Fairfield Church’) is extremely remote and at times in its life has only been accessible by boat. There has been a church here since the 12th century although it was largely rebuilt (in brick) in the 18th. The village of Fairfield itself – in Romney Marsh, in Kent, England – was once larger but is now a few houses and other buildings on the edge of farmland.