These are portraits of people who live or have lived on Sark. The characters of island life. I hope to record more in the coming months and years and document their lives as I believe it is the people not just the nature of Sark which makes it unique.
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Pearl Hamon at La Collenette, Sark.(2007)
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Ann Rive waiting at La Collenette for the first visitors of the day. (2009)
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John ‘the black’ Hamon at work in his farrier’s shed. (2007)
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Etien Marie Branquet on board ‘Dorado’ returning to Sark from Bastille celebrations in Carteret, France. Etien was a small Frenchman who settled on Sark and was very much a part of island life when I was growing up here. He drank Guinness and played pool and darts and I always remember him with a smile. He was a parachutist in the French Foreign Legion before coming to work as a builder here, and liked Sark so ended up staying. He lived in various places around Sark, one of them being the boiler room at Stocks hotel! After suffering a stroke he went to live in a home in France near his sister where he died.
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Pat Toplis 2003
Pat was always a character of Sark life and encouraged my art from a young age. One afternoon she posed for me on her sofa in her little cottage and we chatted about Sark and the people and I thought she was wonderful. Her house was full to bursting with books, ornaments, pictures and interesting furniture. She always dressed in green and was fascinating to draw.
Pat Toplis (1923-2004)
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