• Short Story: Baba’s Important Work (2021)

    The idea for this short story came quickly. Making it work on the page took longer. In large part, I was responding to the idea of ‘the nip’, the idea of friction, abrasion and tensions… Read more

  • The Kick-About #20 – The Ashley Book Of Knots

    The Kick-About always casts its net very wide. Our last haul, inspired by Ernst Haeckel’s Art Forms In Nature, landed a shimmering catch of creativity. Our nets don’t always require knots, but this week’s edition… Read more

  • Ink Part 4 (2021)

    A final set of stills from the animation, Ink (2021) aka Variations on a theme of a Petri dish! Read more

  • Throwback Friday #40 Forgetting To Look (1997 rev. 2021)

    Forgetting To Look finds its way into Red’s Kingdom from that same clutch of obsolete floppy discs on which Lilo was floating about and likewise these illustrations from another short story, The Hoover Bag In… Read more

  • Phil Cooper / Painting Chimera #12

    There seem to be perils on every side for Kyp in Chimera at the moment, and it’s never clear who he can really trust. Lots of new information coming at him thick and fast, but… Read more

  • Chimera Book 1 / Chapter 16 – Return To The Plummet Pit

    It’s been a while coming, but Chapter 16 of Chimera Book 1 has landed at Red’s Kingdom! The prodigiously talented Dan Snelgrove – the voice of Chimera – has had other acting commitments in the… Read more

  • Ink Part 3 (2021)

    A third set of panoramic stills from my short stop-motion film, Ink (2021), which, unlikely as it now looks, captured the interactions between black marker pen and rubbing alcohol on the surface of a 20cm… Read more

  • Ink Part 2 (2021)

    A second set of stills from Ink (2021), evoking expansive skyscapes and vast coastal land masses. Read more

  • Throwback Friday #39 ‘Chair Light’ from Room II (2015)

    Inspired, as ever, by all those dubious photographs of ectoplasmic excretions, I locked myself away in the empty salon of the old French house, and waited for the spirits to show themselves… Read more

  • Ink Part 1 (2021)

    For our recent Ernst Haeckel-inspired Kick-About, I produced a short little animation, capturing the rather wonderful effect of rubbing alcohol on drawings made in black marker pen. As the process of producing an animation requires… Read more

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