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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
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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
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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
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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
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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
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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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Grasses After Lamplough #1 (2022)
I wasn’t familiar with Augustus Osbourne Lamplough’s work (our latest Kick-About muse) but I find his paintings completely magical, and can hardly believe they’re paintings at all, in so much as all that soft golden… Read more
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The Kick-About #59 ‘Augustus Osbourne Lamplough’
Our last Kick-About together was fired off by the super-saturated decor of Henri Matisse’s 1908 painting, Harmony in Red, also known as The Dessert. As Vanessa Clegg observes, there is but a small difference between… Read more
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Throwback Friday #117 ‘Night 8’ (2015)
A rather more sinister-seeming thing from ‘Night 8’ back in the late summer of 2015, when, as others slept above me, I summoned apparitions out of the dark… What fun! Read more
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