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 […]
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. […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
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, […]
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 […]
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 […]
‘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 […]
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 […]
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 […]
The conception of this new project: a soundscape, comes from a deep love of nature and my firm belief that people need nature in their life. With a substantial increase […]
Walking and talking. Something most of us do every day without any regard as to how much our brains are thanking us for participating in this most basic of human […]
Mobiles, stabiles and drawing with lines and air. Alexander Calder has had an enormous impact on my understanding of how simplicity and the understated has the power to connect us […]
