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Throwback Friday #98 Black-Headed Gulls (2016)
As perfectly arranged as those flying ceramic ducks fastened in place to sitting room walls, a foursome of black-headed gulls take-wing on their way out to sea. Read more
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MFT #14 Wake In Fright (1971)
Ted Kotcheff’s 1971 film Wake In Fright is one of my favourite things. Here’s why. Read more
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After Baldwin #3 (2022)
A few final scraps from The Kick-About #48; I tried starting from a different drawing of a different house plant – a fishbone cactus – but didn’t enjoy these outcomes as fulsomely. Still, they got… Read more
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Throwback Friday #97 Black-Headed Gull (2016)
Taken one damp, misty morning on the beach; an instance where the camera’s struggle to arrest the detail of a moving subject produces a more apposite expression of the subject. Read more
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After Baldwin #2 (2022)
A few more Louise Baldwin-inspired abstracts produced for The Kick-About #48 – variations on the same original sketch of one of those elegant Flying Saucer Plants. Not much guiding these, just trying to generate as… Read more
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After Baldwin #1 (2022)
What a joyful Kick-About prompt this was (and a welcome palate cleanser after the severed heads of recent days). Textile artist Louise Baldwin’s work gave me permission to draw quickly and instinctively, and embrace colour… Read more
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The Kick-About #48 ‘Blown In’
If the last Kick-About got us circling around ideas of different pieces and the ties that bind them, this week’s showcase, inspired by the free-associating permissions of Lousie Baldwin’s contemporary textiles, is an offering no… Read more
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Head Piece #6 (2022)
You can thank John Stezaker’s hybrid portraits for the recent outbreak of severed sightless heads popping up on my blog over recent days, but another bit of the Kick-About #47 prompt was the specific title… Read more
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Throwback Friday #96 Little Things (2004?)
For this week’s rummage through the archives of ‘stuff wot I’ve done’, it’s an airing for another of those sad little songs written all the way back in the early-mid 2000s, when I was licking… Read more
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Head Piece #5 (2022)
And you thought finding a spider in the bathtub was unpleasant. A few more unheimlich japes, courtesy of the Kick-About No.47, a balaclava, and a pair or two of flesh-coloured nylon tights… Read more
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