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  • Three Tumblers (2026)

    In good Kick-About style, I took this week’s Nicolas de Stael prompt as an opportunity to try my hand at oil painting. I don’t paint much, and never in oils, so I didn’t quite know… Read more

  • The Kick-About #153 Nicolas de Stael

    In our last Kick-About, we turned to finger puppets — small, handmade figures full of play and character. This week, the focus shifts toward something more pared back. Our prompt looks to Nicolas de Stael,… Read more

  • Drosera (2026)

    As a kid, I was fascinated by carnivorous plants, so whenever I think ‘puppets’, I think about Audrey II—the all-singing venus-fly trap from Little Shop of Horrors. For this much more diminutive prompt, I looked… Read more

  • The Kick-About #152 ‘Finger Puppet’

    In our last Kick-About, we looked up — to steel, symmetry, and the Art Deco ambition of the Chrysler Building. This week, the scale shifts dramatically. Our prompt is finger puppet — small, handmade, and… Read more

  • Chrysalis (2026)

    The thing I love about the Chrysler building—prompt for The Kick-About No.151—is how it grows into organicism as it reaches its peak; I get a strong sense of ‘chrysalis’ from the Chrysler building, as if… Read more

  • The Kick-About #151 ‘The Chrysler Building’

    In our last Kick-About, we lingered on the idea of invisible energies and the strange halos said to surround living things. This week, our attention shifts to something solid, gleaming, and unmistakably tangible. Our prompt… Read more

  • Forteana (2026)

    Admittedly, this response to the idea of ‘Kirlian auras’ (the prompt for The Kick-About No.150) is a bit of mish-mash; hovering about in the background is some half-remembered artwork or illustration from one of those… Read more

  • The Kick-About #150 ‘Kirlian Aura’

    In our last Kick-About, Almond Blossom drew our attention to fragility, colour, and moments of quiet optimism. This week, the focus shifts from what we can plainly see to what is said to surround it.… Read more

  • In-Motion / The Build (2001)

    Twenty-five years ago, I was working as a tutor in the Photography Department at the Kent Institute of Art & Design (KIAD), Rochester, Kent. On 8 May 2001, a shuttered school in Hackney Downs, London… Read more

  • Catkins (2026)

    These hazel catkins were the earliest sign of things to come I could identify at the outset of the new year—lovely long tassels with their acidic yellow-green pollen. To create these images for The Kick-About… Read more

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