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Spin (2025)
You’ll laugh when I tell you how I made these images for The Kick-About No,141—at least, my husband laughed when he saw me walking a 4K webcam out of the back door into the garden… Read more
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Reticulation (2025)
These Nnenna Okore-inspired images for The Kick-About No. 140 began simply enough as photographs of the caustics at the bottom of a holiday swimming pool. The ‘netting effect’ of the sunlit water on the bottom… Read more
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The Kick-About #140 ‘Nnenna Okore’
Our last Kick-About lingered in the half-light, drawing inspiration from the phrase In Praise of Shadows. This week, our muse is the artist Nnenna Okore, whose tactile, organic sculptures are often shaped from everyday or… Read more
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The Modern House: How My Garden Grows
At the very end of July, I was visited by a small team of creative people from The Modern House—not because my house is ‘modern’ (it’s not), but because they’ve launched a new thread about… Read more
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Naiad (2025)
A few weeks back I was on holiday at a house with a small swimming pool. It was incredibly hot, and the pool was beloved by clouds of thirsty wasps and hornets, so floating about… Read more
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Ombre (2025)
I was away in France two weeks ago in an old house that always inspires me to channel my inner ‘spirit photographer’, hoping to create and/or capture some kind of phantasmagoria with my camera. The… Read more
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The Kick-About #139 ‘In Praise of shadows’
In our last Kick-About, Jawlensky’s Girl with the Green Face challenged us with its bold colours and enigmatic expression. This week’s prompt, “In Praise of Shadows,” invites us to notice the quieter qualities of shade… Read more
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Whitstable Carnival 2025
At the beginning of August, it was carnival time again in Whitstable, this year with a Peter Cushing theme, in recognition of Cushing having lived in the town for 35 years until his death in… Read more
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Short Story: Marguerite (2025)
I was very taken by the inner-life of this girl with the green face. She is giving someone, or something, some serious ‘side-eye’, and I was interested in finding out more about her. The resulting… Read more
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