• Samanera #3 (2023)

    A final set of images produced for The Kick-About No.85; photographs of two small monkish figures fashioned from the remains of broken terracotta flower pots. There’s a bit of science-fiction in the mix here… infant… Read more

  • Chimera Book 1 – Complete

    Bringing it all together in one post for your listening pleasure… presenting the complete audio book adaptation of Chimera Book 1 Read more

  • Chimera Book 1 / Chapter 21 – The Sin King

    Chimera is my children’s book about a world of lost things – and the final episode in the audio adaptation has itself been ‘lost’, vanished by more humdrum stuff and a million less thrilling things.… Read more

  • Samanera #2 (2023)

    Inspired by Michael Landy’s saints, comprised as they are from broken bits and fragments, a second set of images produced for The Kick-About No.85. Assembled from shards of terracotta flower pots, I was going for… Read more

  • Samanera #1 (2023)

    So lots going on here in my response to The Kick-About No.85 and the work of artist Michael Landy. I went with ‘fragments and saints’ as my starter-for-ten, and then looked around for the sort… Read more

  • The Kick-About #85 ‘Michael Landy’

    Our last Kick-About together featured Murano glass as its muse, which included a work by Francesca Maxwell, in which some formerly broken pieces of artful glass were fused together to make a new and satisfying… Read more

  • You’ve Always Been The Caretaker

    As course leader for an undergraduate programme at the University for the Creative Arts, Rochester, I cherished many things about my role, certainly all the great and obvious stuff about enlivening the imaginations of young… Read more

  • Throwback Friday #156 ‘Night’ (2015)

    A strange and simple portal manifested in the night from the summer of 2015. Read more

  • After Murano #3 (2023)

    A final collection of Murano glass-inspired orbs produced for The Kick-About No.84. They began life as moving image and there’s certainly a weird little film to be made at some point. I’ll add it to… Read more

  • Throwback Friday #155 Knave’s Ash (2020)

    Taken back in the summer of 2020, these photographs of a meadow kick-started something of an obsession with nailing the in-situ impressionism of fields. There was something so beautiful about this expanse of flowering grasses,… Read more

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