Red's Kingdom

This week’s Kick-About kicked-off with a single word: actiniaria, but if you’re looking for some deep conceptualisation this time out, you’ll need to look elsewhere. My brain went, “Hmmm. What readily available domestic item reminds me of a sea anemone?” Having acquired a couple of mop heads, I coloured them with some tie-dye inks and dried them out in the greenhouse. That done, I tied them off in a few different ways to produce my two rather plump sea anemones. They have a Jim Henson-vibe that I enjoy and likewise make me yearn for the simpler times of my art and design A level, which would no doubt have seen me taking this idea and working it up into some enormous soft-sculpture confection, supported, of course, by all those A2 pastel studies and capacious sketchbooks. Happy days.