https://artnorth-magazine.com/news/phytoncides-and-me ‘When I was small, my Dad and I would walk together. We usually walked in silence and we mapped our progress in distance and time; independent of each other but connected by place and process. I don’t remember when the practice of walking or the smell of leaf litter became central to my art…
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Let’s talk single use plastics!
Where do I begin? Our complacency around plastic is a constant source of unrest for my soul. I see a lot of casual disregard for our planet as I walk and whilst I fervently believe that this is often done without malice aforethought, we must somehow find a way to mobilise the masses to act.…
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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 experiencing, or my sense of displacement that comes when a parent is dying. Belonging is a kind of a collective we. It is about how…
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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 philosopher in America. Her book, ‘Philosophy in a New Key: A Study in the Symbolism of Reason, Rite, and Art’ in 1942, explored theories that…
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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 MacGregor. You can find out more about Geoff on Facebook on his Geoff King – Writer page, or look at his Woodland Treasures website and…
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‘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 for my new work. Stillness. The point at which external distraction and noise, filters out of the psyche. Why is it so difficult to maintain…
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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. Culminating in an exhibition, I will be walking, talking and sharing my way through with ‘Way Finder’ walking workshops (details to follow) and using this…
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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 published in December 2018. This pursuit of mine to create art around walking, is based on a firm belief that I am a better version…
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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 to maintain moisture and temperature at ground level. On a warm August day, I had the good fortune to go foraging for Blaeberries with a…
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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 refuse collections than I have ever seen….but….
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