The Gap a Smugglers Tale is a book on Smuggling.

I am a landscape drawer and painter and do the odd portrait picture, my work consists of painting our lovely countryside in East Sussex, especially places of historical interest. I would like to travel around Britain and Europe and paint more paintings of these types of places. I chose acrylic paint as a medium for quick drying for publication but can paint in any medium.

For the exhibition, I have painted written, and illustrated a book about the smugglers as the smugglers have not been illustrated since the eighteenth century in publications, and felt that a modern style would be nice in bringing them back to life to tell a true story about how we lived and the difference between modern-day smuggling and smuggling in the 16th, 17th, 18th century.

The book is about how we used the sea and land to smuggle, and the paintings are of actual places that we did smuggle to.

We have had many invaders landing on the South Coast and of cause, at one time this was a way through. Due to geology, and global warming our landscape has molded and changed.

I have always remembered since school geography class that a u-shaped landscape is mainly where glaciers are formed or in previously glaciated mountainous areas. U-shaped valleys usually have a distinct U-shaped outline, high, straight, and steep walls, and a rounded or flat bottom, East Sussex and The Sussex Downs is exactly that and was formed by glaciers. So, we have had points of low-lying land that can be entered via the sea, shaped through time.