These Flooded Houses drawings all depict houses where I lived (in chronological order), shown as they were at the time I lived in them, with no subsequent alterations or additions. Ink on watercolour paper.

Many viewers will recognise the architectural style of these typical English houses, four of which are semi-detached.

The drawings are based on family photographs, memory, imagination, and what the houses look like now (although one has been demolished, and most have been altered, sometimes to the point of being almost unrecognisable).

The houses are drawn using Renaissance two-point perspective and they are accompanied by a tree, often one inspired by a Renaissance painting. In these drawings, the houses are deserted and uninhabited, but pristine.

The floods speak to me of the houses being unreachable - lost in the past and existing only in unreliable and fragile memory.

The houses can also be perceived as deserted and abandoned as a result of climate change, flood, and the total departure of human beings. In this interpretation, the houses show a distant future rather than a recent past.