The Margate Harbour Arm Gallery is reopening after a six-month closure for sea defence work, with an exhibition of images of Thanet by local artist and photographer David Case.

The exhibition is a collection of photographic montages based on Thanet entitled Reflections on Reality. The works investigate our perception of time and space in the environment.

Mr Case said that Thanet was the subject of his art because it "is a place of powerful nature, challenge and revelations".

Mr Case is from Thanet and went to Dave Court Grammar School, Broadstairs, in the 1960s. He had a career as an editorial illustrator and designer for a national newspaper and later headed up various art departments for a number of national magazines.

Mr Case is also an award winning designer. Retiring from his career after being diagnosed with multiple sclerosis, he returned to Thanet in 2003 to work on a number of projects in the area.

With regard to his work in Thanet, he said that he used the landscape to depict time and space in two dimensions. "I adopt a cubist approach; I take a photograph of it and then deconstruct and re-assemble it in a different context."

"By combining, mirroring, patterning and design, I give the viewer multiple and impossible viewpoints over time and in space, enriching the viewing experience," he said. “Most importantly though, I aim to create beautiful images.”