Author Archives: SallyK

Sally Kindberg and workshops, some involving a Hat of Surprise

Posted on November 24, 2025 by SallyK

It’s not as if I usually wear my Hat of Surprise, but this hat is sometimes an important part of one of my many comic strip workshops, including those at schools, the Institute of Physics, the Guardian, Ledbury Poetry Festival, … Continue reading →

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Little Tich’s boots, coincidences and connections

Posted on October 5, 2025 by SallyK

One day earlier this year I got into conversation with a neighbour down the road busily working on a rather cool looking electric blue MG Midget. ‘Oh it’s you who makes all that racket revving and driving up and down … Continue reading →

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Creaky clockwork collection at the Art Workers Guild 2025

Posted on September 28, 2025 by SallyK

What do strange scissors, miniature beds, creaky clockwork, novelty erasers, tools of the stuccatore and coffin photos all have in common?  They’re some of the thirty subjects of obscure enthusiasms who appeared, with their owners, one day recently in Bloomsbury … Continue reading →

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Eyes

Posted on September 28, 2025 by SallyK

This summer has been a time of SK eye adjustments. Frustrating as initial eye surgery took longer than expected to heal.  Addition surgery tbc.  But hopefully the end result will be improved eye power, although currently time looking at a … Continue reading →

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Fitzrovia Fete August 10th 2025

Posted on August 12, 2025 by SallyK

Great fun to be invited back to take part in the annual Fitzrovia Fete event organised by Lucia Jaffer and her Fitzrovia Community Centre team.  My drawing prompts this year were ‘Draw a Family Tree and/or Draw your Best Friend’, … Continue reading →

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Demonstration August 9th 2025

Posted on August 11, 2025 by SallyK

Shame on the current government curtailing the right to protest, for whatever cause.  According to the Guardian, there were 532 arrests on August 9th.  The right to protest is protected by the European Convention of Human Rights. See also the UN … Continue reading →

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Teeth

Posted on June 10, 2025 by SallyK

Recently I visited Apsley House, once home of the Duke of Wellington, for the first time.  Nothing to do with his teeth (featured above), but because I’m reading Laura Cumming’s excellent book The Vanishing Man about a lost painting by … Continue reading →

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By the Thames

Posted on June 8, 2025 by SallyK

Yesterday at Blackfriars in the drizzle I was vaguely looking for treasure. Three canoeists arrived from Putney, taking a break on the foreshore before continuing their journey downriver. Two were disabled – one was blind.  I’m happier on the water … Continue reading →

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Squeaky

Posted on May 21, 2025 by SallyK

Printed ephemera, bits of packaging and one or two 3D items of interest collected over the years cover one wall of my apartment. One of them became part of a morning ritual.  Some time ago, on a visit to Prague, … Continue reading →

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May Day with Deptford Jack in the Green and the Fowlers Troupe

Posted on May 8, 2025 by SallyK

The only member of the Fowlers Troupe I recognised, from seeing his work before, was Bob Humm,wearing the horse’s head.  Despite wearing a coronet of leaves I felt distinctly underdressed. The procession left its starting point at the Dog and … Continue reading →

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