Biscuits and Basil
I have been thinking a lot about my place in this world. This line of thought could be down to my gender, my age, the career change that I am […]
Forging new pathways
American philosopher Susanne Katherina Langer’s career spanned over much of the twentieth century. Langer was a writer, an educator and she was the first female to be recognised as a […]
A little diversion
‘They believed them to be primitive, they deemed them immoral, they thought them barbaric…they called them The Nutters’ A new novel by Geoff King. Artwork, front cover, by Lar […]
‘Mind mapping’ and the contours of an artist’s brain…
Wayfaring Chair: walking, nature and well-being. Well-being; an illusive, mutable and desirable objective for each day. Mind mapping: a new visual for using contours and labels to investigate routes […]
Caladar Arts, Artist Residency 2019
February 2019 begins with an exciting adventure into an artist residency at Caladar Arts, Cawdor, Scotland; two blissful months of immersion into creativity and contemporary art in the Scottish Highlands. […]
The ‘art’ of walking
Happy New Year one and all. Hope for a happy 2019 is to be found in the form of a special issue of ‘Interartive‘ an online magazine. My art project Wayfaring, was […]
Wayfaring Geordie…’Found’
I don’t remember when the smell of leaf litter became important in my life. Decomposing leaves improve soil, adding carbon, nitrogen, phospherous and other inorganic compounds as well as helping […]
There is no planet B…
Observations and responses to a slow walk around the Old Port of Chania, Crete. The Cretans do their best to keep there home clean and free from litter with more […]
Water
Crete. The birthplace of Zeus, the fifth largest island in the Mediterranean and an island that boasts a wealth of landscapes from sandy beaches to the White Mountains. The Minoans […]
North Lands Creative with Alan Horsley.
Day 1 It began in a room with a view. As my friend and housemate stated ‘Summer is green in colour’. I consider this over a cup of tea and […]
Wayfaring Soundscape – ‘A dance with Nature’
The best laid plans… New adventures always have their challenges. Often, the challenges come from an external source and there is little that can be done other than going with […]
Wayfaring Map
What is a map? Why do we need them? I discovered deep mapping when I read a book by Tim Ingold. ‘Lines’ draws on multiple disciplines and, examines what walking, observing, […]
Wayfaring Chair
In 1966, Blandford Press released a series of books on rural Britain. Book number 8 in this series was by J.B. Wood. It was called ‘Growing and Studying Trees’. In […]
The Wayfaring Knots
Having used traditional rope-making techniques and gathered small quantities of the dominant plant species in each walk carried out, some interesting observations have been yielded in the resulting small scale […]
Contra s.t.
‘Night & Day’ is an upcoming exhibition at the Lochtorridon Centre and this small sculpture explores the narrative in the concept of contrast. Spirals…symbolic of evolution and growth throughout the […]
Abstract walks, abstract thoughts.
In the walking, mapping of my tracks and listening to the environments in which I walk, I am creating a picture of this project. Walking is not the usual way […]
Coiling with Caroline Dear.
Caroline Dear worked as an architect before her focus turned to art. Moving to the Isle of Skye in 1998, she began to respond to her natural environment and the […]
