Vincent Hawkins
’A Line of Ashes’

Preview 7 February 6-8pm
8 February – 29 March 2026
TKE Studios, Margate

Open Saturdays and Sundays, 12–5pm

TKE Studios is pleased to present an exhibition of new and recent works by Vincent Hawkins.

Hawkins’ paintings and prints are built through accumulation, abrasion, and revision. Surfaces are worked, scraped back, and reworked, carrying the trace of decisions made and undone. Lines appear, disappear, and reassert themselves, creating a quiet tension between structure and instability.

The work is not concerned with collapse as an endpoint, but with what follows it. These surfaces suggest a state after breakdown, where forms reassemble, adapt, and open onto new possibilities. What emerges feels provisional rather than resolved, shaped by pressure, repetition, and necessity rather than certainty.

There is a strong sense of containment throughout the work, a continual negotiation between control and release. Nothing is fixed. Each painting feels as though it has arrived at its current state through persistence rather than intention.

Hawkins has lived and worked in Margate for the past two years, and this exhibition marks an important presentation of his practice within the town. Bringing together painting and printmaking, the works continue his long-standing engagement with material processes, repetition, and the slow logic of making.