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The idea for this story came quickly, inspired in part by the conflict going on between the domesticity of the subject in Henri Matisse’s 1908 painting, Harmony In Red (our latest Kick-About prompt), and the roar of its redness, like a sudden rush of feeling, something eruptive and less civilised. I was excited too by…
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Our previous Kick-About was inspired by the sometimes sombre, monochromatic, and richly atmospheric drawings of Mervyn Peake. Never happier than when making break-neck changes of direction, this latest gathering of new works made in a short time is inspired by Henri Matisse’s celebrated punch of fauvist colour. Boom!
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There’s an agreeable whiff of King Kong’s Skull Island about this photograph taken in a wintery Central Park in December 2014.
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You’re supposed to play petanque on a nice flat bit of sand or fine gravel – not on the lumps and bumps of a shingle beach. Nonetheless, we’ve enjoyed many games on Whitstable beach, lobbing those satisfyingly heavy silver balls through the air in the hope of landing them near enough to the jack to…
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With Mervyn Peake’s drawings laying down the gauntlet for The Kick-About 57, I decided to attempt some character drawings of my own, as inspired by the trio of villains in my own work of fantastic fiction, Chimera. I don’t really draw, or identify as someone who does, but this bloody Kick-About business keeps prompting me to make…
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From the percussive, delineated sound-shapes of a Sandy Nelson drum solo, our muse for our previous Kick-About, we are this week riffing on the appreciably softer tones of the drawings by Mervyn Peake, and likewise the richness of his imaginary worlds and all their eccentric inhabitants.
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A last hurrah courtesy of The Kick-About No.56 and Sandy Nelson’s percussive powers. My unrequited print and textile brain insists I do something with some of these images (“To the loom with you at once!”), but I lack the skills, stuff and wherewithal to act on these impulses!
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A penultimate set of percussion-derived images for The Kick-About No.56.
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Raiding another of those newly uncovered photographs from our 2014 trip to New York.
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A further batch of images produced for The Kick-About No.56, with drums and drumming as their muse.
Red's Kingdom 