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Kings Wood (2023)
So not a pine forest (Klimt’s Tannenwald being the prompt for The Kick-About No.81), but a beech wood carpeted with bluebells. These photographs were produced by over-exposing a lot to introduce lots of white into… Read more
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The Kick-About #81 ‘Tannenwald’
Charles Sheeler, our prompt for our previous Kick-About, transformed his man-made landscapes into flattened, graphical patchworks. Klimt’s painting, Tannenwald is similarly transformative, magicking a forest of ubiquitous pine trees into something as tactile and richly… Read more
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Throwback Friday #152 The Great Islington Brain Drain (2017)
In a previous life, I would always find myself fiercely preoccupied May-through-June with designing and fund-raising for my final year students’ graduate showcase at New Designers in Islington, London. Read more
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Brett’s #2 (2023)
A few more photographs of the Brett’s aggregate factory, Whitstable, taken in response to the Charles Sheeler prompt for The Kick-About No.80. Read more
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Throwback Friday #151 Honesty (2016)
I love Lunaria annua, with its translucent paper discs and silhouetted seeds. This bunch of seed heads were harvested from the scrub at the edges of the Old French House and poked into a big… Read more
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Brett’s #1 (2023)
One of the things guarding against the prettification of my home town is the presence of an aggregate factory slap-bang in the harbour. With Charles Sheeler’s flattened abstractions in my sights – this week’s Kick-About… Read more
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The Kick-About #80 ‘Charles Sheeler’
Textile artist, Sheila Hicks, inspired our last Kick-About together, and it was all soft, cushiony forms, meshes and string. This time out, we’re keeping company with Charles Sheeler and his crisp, clean expressions of modernity. Read more
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Throwback Friday #150 Meadow Misc. (2015)
I’ve spent a good deal of time getting lost in fields, as for me, there is nothing more transportive than a wall-to-wall vista of meadow grass as its colours and textures are transformed by the… Read more
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After Hicks #2 (2023)
A second batch of Sheila Hicks-inspired forms providing the answer to the question no one ever asked about what happens if you load shredded cardboard with Christmas pudding-sized dollops of filler, before wrapping the whole… Read more
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Throwback Friday #149 Water Lilies (2015)
I can’t recall exactly where this photograph was taken, except it was one of those lovely large houses with lovely large gardens somewhere in Kent, and it was sunny day in 2015 and we were… Read more
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