• The Kick-About #15 ‘High Street’

    After the informality of our collective Boogie Doodle, this week’s responses take as their starting points the urbane visions of Eric Ravilious’ High Street, beguiling in their nostalgia and just as bitter-sweet considering our current… Read more

  • 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

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