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Throwback Friday #43 An Off-Cut (2017)
When you’re scrambling about in an old dark house trying to produce phantasmagorical effects on film using various Heath Robinson-style contraptions comprising light-sources and black elastic, not everything goes according to plan. My various hard… Read more
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Fox Quick (2021)
I wanted to engage with the most recent Kick-About prompt – the 5 Canons of Rhetoric – as it related to the idea of moving from an initial instinctive idea to something recognisably cogent and… Read more
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The Kick-About #21 ‘The Five Canons Of Rhetoric’
The Kick-About comes of age today, with Edition No. 21. Let me begin by saying how restorative, ordering and genuinely exciting I find our collective runarounds. Through your emails, comments and conversations, I know you… Read more
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Saxon Shore Scrub #4 (2021)
A final set of photographs from the scrubland at Saxon Shore. I went down into the basin, where the snow was lying thicker, and even though there were people walking their dogs nearby and a… Read more
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Saxon Shore Scrub #3 (2021)
It snowed more heavily towards the end of this week, so I returned to the ostensibly unremarkable basin of grasses and bramble that had offered up such improbably cataclysmic and other-worldly imagery on my previous… Read more
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Throwback Friday #42 Whitstable Garden, Late Summer (2019)
As the temperature continues to drop, I’m hankering after a blast of Summer heat and colour. Yesterday afternoon, the falling snow went from quick, dry powder to lilting goose feathers, and our small garden was… Read more
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Tears For Fears: On The Bereavement Of Teachers
There’s a reason why the sympathy cards we buy don’t include, above their sombre, understated images of flowers, statements like; ‘Your Feelings Are Wrong! This Isn’t A Loss, It’s An Opportunity!’ or ‘Buck up! You… Read more
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Saxon Shore Scrub #2 (2021)
A bit more ‘Sturm und Drang’, courtesy of an otherwise unprepossessing patch of bramble and wild grass. I’m tempted to draw in some plucky-looking clipper ships and a scattering of krakens! Read more
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Saxon Shore Scrub #1 (2021)
At last some snow – not a huge amount, and of the dry, powdery variety, but the wind chill has been fierce. That said, we went out for a very brisk walk yesterday, along the… Read more
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Throwback Friday #41 ‘Hearth’ from Three Five One (2016)
This was another of the empty rooms at No 351, the grand, sprawling house in which I locked myself for an overnight vigil in late July, 2016. I recall I was getting pretty tired by… Read more
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