• Throwback Friday #121 ‘Lawn Sphere’ (2013)

    An early foray into all things glowy and mysterious from the summer of 2013, working with 35mm film and a rather antiquated camera. This photograph was taken out in the dark arena of rough grass… Read more

  • Throwback Friday #120 ‘Three Screenprinted Doors’ (1998)

    Back in 1998, as part of my masters degree, I developed a project outcome in which I screenprinted an original short story onto three ubiquitous wooden doors. Read more

  • Three Bowls (2022)

    I’ve spent a lot of my time painting and decorating recently, as our house has been looking very ‘lived-in’ and was in need of some care and attention. Less poetically, this has entailed the mixing-up… Read more

  • The Kick-About #60 ‘A Chawan Is A Bowl’

    I wonder if Augustus Osbourne Lamplough (our previous Kick-About prompt) ever sipped tea as he laboured at his paintings under some far-off afternoon sun? We’ll never know, but tea is clearly a tonic for the… Read more

  • Whitstable Carnival, August (2022)

    On Saturday, August 6th, it was Whitstable’s carnival, a fascinating expression of quirk and eccentricity, combining all the sea-centric elements you might expect from this long-standing tradition with more off-kilter entries. Read more

  • Throwback Friday #119 ‘Hieronymus Lamp’ (1993)

    A real oldie for this week’s flashback – and a strange one at that! I made this lamp on my Foundation course all the way back in 1993, and I can’t remember the brief exactly,… Read more

  • July Seascapes, Whitstable (2022)

    These photographs were taken on the day after the UK saw those uncanny, record-breaking temperatures. We went to the beach to escape the strange temperature of our terraced house and swam gratefully in the shallowing… Read more

  • Grasses After Lamplough #3 (2022)

    A final set of Lamplough-inspired golden-hour grasses. Read more

  • Throwback Friday #118 ‘Night 9’ (2015)

    Another night in 2015, and another happening, and I think Rod Serling would have approved of this one! Read more

  • Grasses After Lamplough #2 (2022)

    A second collection of photographs inspired by the watercolour paintings of Augustus Osbourne Lamplough, our most recent Kick-About prompt. In order to emulate the soft tonal range of Lamplough’s landscapes, I photographed this unkempt basin… Read more

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