• Throwback Friday #30 The Hoover Bag In Tweed – Illustrations (1997)

    Back in July, I rediscovered a collection of ancient 3 inch floppy discs and CDs dating from my years as an undergraduate, which makes this data storage technology (and the work it contains) 23 years… Read more

  • Chimera Conversations @ Hedgecrows

    Originally posted on Hedgecrows: Concrete Eagle, illustration for Chimera, by Phil Gomm. Chapter 11, ‘A dark shape swooped suddenly from above…’, mixed media on paper, 40 x 40 xm Sorry if you’ve received two versions… Read more

  • Phil Cooper / Painting Chimera #7

    “I found Chapter 10 so touching, and Dan’s narration really brought out the emotion in the dialogue between Kyp and Atticus; I was quite teary by the end! Chapter 11 is very moving in parts… Read more

  • Film: Lost In Fields Part 6 – Tankerton Slopes, November (2020)

    Getting Lost in Fields is a series of little films prompted into life by the Kick-About #6, which saw me attempting to evoke the rhapsodic sensations of being out and about with my camera in… Read more

  • Chimera Book 1 / Chapter 11 – The Boy In The School Uniform

    Apologies! A little later than advertised… but certainly worth the wait! Read more

  • Tankerton Slopes, November #6 (2020)

    These are the final photographs, taken as the last of the sun slipped away, and the slopes took on a much more wintery aspect. The metallic filigree effects produced by the sunlight catching in the… Read more

  • Tankerton Slopes, November #5 (2020)

    Okay, so when I said in my previous Tankerton Slopes post that it was my ‘final batch of martime tuftiness’ I lied. Or rather, I went out again a few days later to catch the… Read more

  • Throwback Friday #29 Room (2015)

    Another spectral entity photographed in the empty room of an old French house, observed while the owls hooted in the black canopy of trees outside and a curious polecat, snug under the roof tiles, feasted… Read more

  • ‘Zoodles’ (2020)

    This week’s Kick-About was an exuberant and playful affair, in which the participating artists parked their usual conceptual ruminations and had some fun – and how could we not, given we had Norman Maclaren’s Boogie-Doodle… Read more

  • Phil Cooper / Painting Chimera #6

    “As usual, with this chapter, I was spoilt for choice with so many vivid images conjured by the words. In the end, I chose to depict a fossilised dinosaur from the museum Kyp describes. I… Read more

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