• Throwback Friday #13 The Lion & The Ivy (2006)

    In writing about my enthusiasm for the Brothers Quay’s stop-motion animation, Street of Crocodiles, I was prompted to recall memories of my visits to Stoke Newington’s Abney Park cemetery. In turn, I was prompted to… Read more

  • Boughton Scrub Part 3 (2020)

    Another crop of images this morning, featuring more of those striking swathes of rumex spires and daubs of purple thistle. Some of these begin to feel like I’m looking at sections of elaborate. luxurious wallpaper… Read more

  • Boughton Scrub Part 2 (2020)

    A second visit to Boughton Scrub – a living tapestry of stitches, fine threads and scarlet skeins. Read more

  • Artist In Residence: Graeme Daly #4

    Hey Graeme! Welcome back. I noticed a few exciting updates going out on social media about new progress on your animated short, The Green Glider. How’s it coming along? Read more

  • Boughton Scrub Part 1 (2020)

    Late yesterday afternoon we found an extraordinary place, an improbable paradise of colour, texture and impressionist sensorial pleasure… in spitting distance of a sewage plant! I suspect we might have been engaging in some light… Read more

  • Your Daily Horoscope

    One of the lovely things about having spent a decade or more working with young early career animators is… I know a lot of young early career animators! A few days back I received an… Read more

  • The Uncanny Object (1998)

    The Kick-About #5 prompted me to exhume these images from the archive, specifically Graeme Daly’s recollections of the basement in his father’s house, and particularly the suspicion with which he regarded the dolls who lived… Read more

  • Hart Hill Again Part 4 (2020)

    And finally then, we arrive at the last of the last. You probably feel as if you’ve spent as much time in this barley field as me! Read more

  • Throwback Friday #12 Eschscholzia californica

    A roar of Summer at the end of the week! In common with lots of my plant photography, I don’t know when these portraits of Eschscholzia californica were taken, but at some point in the… Read more

  • Hart Hill Again Part 3 (2020)

    After parts one and two, it’s part three of the series of photographs taken at Hart Hill, Kent. Just as you may be running out of patience with these images, I’m running out of ways… Read more

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