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After Hicks #1 (2023)
I was very drawn to Sheila Hick’s fabric marshmallow-y boulders, but knew right away I didn’t have the resources or the space to emulate the scale of Hick’s installations – the prompt for The Kick-About… Read more
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The Kick-About #79 ‘Sheila Hicks’
Our last Kick-About was a celebration of three year’s worth of mucking about with materials, making, inventing, re-imagining and re-purposing. As a result, I suspect some of us have spaces in our homes beginning to… Read more
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Throwback Friday #148 Whitstable Harbour (2022)
This abstract little number was taken one milky day at low tide in Whitstable in late winter 2022. The view is of under one of the quays that project out into the sea, the sun… Read more
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Throwback Friday #147 Stone Pines, Rome (2018)
Also known as umbrella pines or parasol pines, the proper name for these iconic Roman trees is Pinus pinea, photographed here in 2018, and looking like streamers of greenish smoke or low-lying clouds. Amazing things. Read more
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The Kick-About / A Third Year Later
This moment in my blogging year does remind me a bit of when I used to put all my beloved He-Man figures on display, so I could just sit back with a purring of pleasure,… Read more
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The Kick-About #78 ‘156.536’
Welcome to this anniversary edition of The Kick-About – a fortnightly creative challenge in which a loose community of artists make new works in a short time in response to a specific prompt. Gathered here,… Read more
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Throwback Friday #146 Scooby Doo Doorway (2015)
More spooky goings-on in the Old French House from 2015. ‘Let’s get outta here, Scoobs…’ Read more
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Throwback Friday #145 Field of Gold (2020)
Despite my best efforts, these photographs taken from deep within a hillside field of rapeseed do not do proper justice to the sensorial experience of being surrounded by this furnace of the colour at sun… Read more
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Strange Synthetic Perfumes (2023)
My imagination attached itself to these lines in part two of T.S. Eliot’s poem, The Waste Land (an excerpt of which being the prompt for The Kick-About No.77): ‘In vials of ivory and coloured glass /… Read more
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The Kick-About #77 ‘The Chair she sat in, like a burnished throne’
We spent our last Kick-About together riffing on a surrealistic painting by Lucian Freud – a depiction of a strange artificial-seeming room filled with improbable objects and an air of unfinished business. Courtesy of an… Read more
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