• Perfect Papery Things

    We’ve got several great big clumps of Astrantia major – or Greater Masterwort – growing in the garden. It has just come into flower, though ‘flowers’ don’t quite describe the perfect papery things that sit… Read more

  • Throwback Friday #6 351 (2017)

    It’s late July 2017 and I’ve just locked myself inside a very big, very old dark house somewhere in the Medway Towns. The house number is 351. I will spend the night alone at number… Read more

  • Artist-In-Residence: Graeme Daly #2

    Hey Phil. I’m glad to be back at Red’s Kingdom to share some animation shenanigans. I’m thrilled to announce the film has a title, and it’s called The Green Glider. Currently, the main development has… Read more

  • Metropolis Continued

    When participating Kick-About artist and animator, Emily Clarkson, offered up ‘Metropolis’ as the second prompt, I wasn’t alone in looking forward to walking into the expressionistic world of Fritz Lang’s epic work of science-fiction. At… Read more

  • The Kick About #2 ‘Metropolis’

    We were all surprised and delighted by the response to the first Kick About, with a whole range of work in a variety of media triggered by Max Ernst’s 1955 painting, Moon In A Bottle.… Read more

  • MFT #1 Black Narcissus (1947)

    Black Narcissus is one of my favourite things. Here’s why. Written, produced and directed by Michael Powell and Emeric Pressburger from the novel by Rumer Godden, Black Narcissus (1947) charts the trials and tribulations of… Read more

  • Throwback Friday #5 The Queen Mab Scherzo (2019)

    Under the eccentric-sounding title Gelata Spongia Oculus Eruptus, I talked about a new film project in-the-offing that utilises a sound-visualisation widget to power animated imagery. Invented by Ethan Shilling, the plug-in was developed for live-synchronisation… Read more

  • Golden Hour Grasses

    A few evenings back, we went to Oare for the golden hour, the sun honeyed, the breeze warm, and all the soft banks of green and purple grasses rolling away from my camera towards the… Read more

  • Artist In Residence: Tom Beg #2

    Is it weird I want to eat this latest offering from Artist-In-Residence, Tom Beg? Is it in anyway strange this fruity, jellied character has me licking my lips in an involuntary Haribo-craving saliva response? Is… Read more

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