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Throwback Friday #9 Meadow (2014)
I know, I know. There’s been a whole world of grass-themed posts on here over the last few weeks. Blame the good weather. Blame the lock-down. Blame the Kent countryside. Blame Monet’s and his fetish… Read more
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Night Flyers #2
Lilium ‘Night Flyer’ in the late afternoon sun was an impressive sight – nearly black flowers revealing the deepest, richest reds and licks of orange flame. Lilium ‘Night Flyer’ in the early morning after the… Read more
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Wheat Field (2020)
Next to the flowering meadow of wild grasses in all their variance, there is a large field of young wheat, glaucous, uniform in habit and in height, but tipped with spindrift by the gentle play… Read more
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Artist In Residence: Tom Beg #4
This image is joyous – like a shoal of outlandish helium balloons. It looks to me like you were really enjoying yourself, translating your Miro-verse ‘anchovies’ into 3D existence… Read more
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Norman McLaren & Evelyn Lambart: Lines Horizontal (1962)
“An experiment in pure design by film artists Norman McLaren and Evelyn Lambart. Lines, ruled directly on film, move with precision and grace against a background of changing colors, in response to music specially composed… Read more
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Night Flyers
Dangerous-looking and ridiculously dramatic, these ‘Night Flyer’ lilies were glowing in the garden this afternoon, their stamens like pokers left too long in the fire. Read more
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Knave’s Ash Part 2 (2020)
A further rush of gauzy photographs from that plushly upholstered meadow of flowering grasses. Read more
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Knave’s Ash Part 1 (2020)
Another evening walk, another glorious meadow, another glut of painterly photographs! Is it art or are they just 5000 piece jigsaws-in-waiting? What’s ultimately disappointing about these images, their billowing impressionist effects aside, is they can’t… Read more
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The Tell Tale Heart (1953)
Designed by Paul Julian, directed by Ted Parmelee and narrated by James Mason, UPA’s 1953 masterful adaptation of Edgar Allan Poe’s short-story is proof – if more proof is even needed – that animation isn’t… Read more
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Throwback Friday #8 A Bonfire Night Alien (c.1989)
An old wallet of photographs surfaced recently from an era of my life I otherwise have no tangible reminders for, including a set of very poorly exposed snaps taken one bonfire night. The subject of… Read more
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