Walkings New Movements Conference 1-3 November 2019 University of Plymouth Words that landed like arrows in slow motion leading, pointing, pulling, pushing, prodding, provoking 1. Simon Bradly and Ursula Troche Friday evening displaced displaced objects, displaced object, the special found object of sheep wool reborn in new places, next times reborn through the telling in […]
FIRST WEDNESDAYS breaking through resistance to enjoy creative giftedness
Wednesday 2nd October 2019 Facilitator: Alex Patchett-Joyce In the online session, we acknowledged the breakthrough of an artist who had been suffering with chronic creative block. She had given her power away, and in the telling of what had happened had recognised this huge breakthrough with a simple step. A step made without thinking, just […]
Language and vulnerability: Walking in Booker Down Rough
BLOG 50 WALKS Saturday 17th August 2019 Booker Down Rough/West Harting I often hear about, read about, and say, that to allow oneself to be vulnerable is a good thing. Brene Brown writes about vulnerability, and gives plenty of evidence in her books which I love to listen to. Recently, I’ve been experiencing it. A […]
Women artists full moon walks – June 2019 – Rose Moon
Women Artists Moonwalk starting 5.45am Monday 17th June 2019 Walk: from home, back across the paddock in front of the house, along the road, then up through the beech lined footpath towards the crossroads at North Lodge. Up the hill road towards Forestside on the parallel path in the woods, then steeply up into Nore […]
Chichester Art Trail 2019 with Drink&Draw
Artworks will available for viewing, discussion and buying at the Chichester Art Trail, along with visual research, sketchbooks, works-in-progress and the many found objects of inspiration I collect from the Walks. 4th, 5th, 6th, 11th and 12th May (I’m out teaching afternoon of the 12th, but the work will be there to view) The venue […]
The Art of Enquiry in Nature: 9th March 2019
BLOG: THE ART OF ENQUIRY IN NATURE revealing and unfolding 9th March 2019 Following international women’s day, we marched the first steep climb and we all felt feisty. The wind was high, 50mph, thrusting the leafless March trees into one another with clangs and squeaks. Some participants didn’t want to walk at the fast pace, […]
The Insistence of Drawing – Prof Anita Taylor
Prof Anita Taylor Feb 2019 SitSelect, Centre for Science & Art, Stroud THE INSISTENCE OF DRAWING It took three hours driving, a day after the big snow halt on the M4 and A34, with relative ease. The centre is the old (Gloucestershire) art college with herringbone wooden floor tiles, high ceilings, wide and shallow stairs. […]
Drawing: what for?
I’m thinking about drawing and the drawing process that i use of observing something, as I walk my daily walk, what comes to me is that drawing is a way to get to what is hidden, a way to get to know what is not knowable by using a different language. it’s a way for […]
50 journeys / #1 Daisy: ‘Saving the world’
Walk with Daisy (and Flora the dog) 9th March 2017 Ranmore Common, near Effingham, Surrey Daisy: what is the one missing nutrient, that one ingredient, the ‘jewel’ ingredient that would really nurture and feed everyone? Food has become so sanitised, it has all the right colours and shapes, but what nutrients […]
Dear Elephant in the Room,
I just wanted to write, to you, to introduce myself and to say that I know that you are here. I have sensed you on the periphery of my place and you should know that I am learning how to see through your veils. Through our veils. A part of my mind colludes to keep […]