Jane Sharkey – Walking artist and maker inspired by life on Lundy

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  • January 19, 2026

    Exploring Christmas at Lundy: A Unique Experience

    Exploring Christmas at Lundy: A Unique Experience

    Radio Cornwall conversation about Lundy at christmas. Covering how visitors celebrate christmas and New Year on the island. Plus how many residents are here for New Year and what they get up to

  • January 19, 2026

    Devon Day 2025: Celebrating Heritage and Culture

    Devon Day 2025: Celebrating Heritage and Culture

    A reording of an interveiw for Radio Devon. This conversation is linked to celebrating Devon Day and is about living and working on Lundy.

  • January 18, 2026

    Portrait of an Island : Lundy’s Evolving places

    Portrait of an Island : Lundy’s Evolving places

    Walking with a book mobilises it, releasing the author’s words back into the landscape. Following Langham’s route from Millcombe to the High Street, this walk drifts between archive and anecdote, history and habit. It is a reflection on walking as a cultural practice, shaped as much by weather, work, and community as by the paths…

  • January 10, 2026

    Portrait of an Island: Arrival and First Impressions

    Portrait of an Island: Arrival and First Impressions

    A reflective walk on Lundy inspired by A. F. Langham’s The Island of Lundy, comparing past and present landscapes from the Landing Bay.

  • December 27, 2025

    Walking Paths on Lundy Island: Routes, Roaming, and Reflection

    Walking Paths on Lundy Island: Routes, Roaming, and Reflection

    Walking the paths of Lundy Island reveals a landscape shaped by weather, animals, and repeated footsteps. From historic routes to fading tracks, this post reflects on freedom to roam and how paths echo the journeys we take through life.

  • December 27, 2025

    Finding Balance at Twixmas on Lundy

    Finding Balance at Twixmas on Lundy

    That strange, softened time between Christmas and New Year — when days blur and you finally have space to breathe — feels familiar on Lundy. Here, that ‘Twixmas’ feeling isn’t confined to one week of the year. It’s a way of living. Through walking, weather, and uneven ground, the island continually asks for balance: not…

  • December 22, 2025

    The Mystique of Lundy’s Unique Landscape

    The Mystique of Lundy’s Unique Landscape

    Small Islands across the globe have long held a mystique, sometimes becoming sites of religious, spiritual or supernatural exception. Johnson, H., (2024) I recently read an article by Henry Johnson (2024) about religious or spiritual places. It made me think about how Lundy doesn’t show itself as a spiritual place. It doesn’t announce itself in…

  • December 16, 2025

    Lundy – A home from a distance

    Lundy – A home from a distance

    At the moment, I’m on the mainland, in my house on the North Devon coast. It feels odd looking out towards Lundy as from here it’s just a rock out at sea. It is strange as it does not feel like an island I live on! When I am at home on the mainland, I…

  • December 14, 2025

    A Walk Through Lundy’s Quarries and a link to Portland, Dorset.

    A Walk Through Lundy’s Quarries and a link to Portland, Dorset.

    On Summer days, when the sun sits high and clean above Lundy, the island glows. The granite shines, Mica and Feldspar glinting black and white. It is the quality of this Lundy granite that led to the creation of the Lundy Granite Company in 1863. Although there is little sun today at the end of…

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