Category: Walking Artist
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Shakespeare, Turner and a Cave on Lundy
If you walk along the Lower East path, on the cliffs between Brazen Ward and Mousehole & Trap, you’ll find one of the island’s more mysteriously named places — Queen Mab’s Grotto, Lundy. The History of Queen Mab’s Grotto The cave is thought to have been formed naturally, thousands of years ago by the action…
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Embracing Change: Life on Lundy
Life on Lundy Island rarely goes exactly to plan. From cancelled sailings and fog-bound flights to unexpected walks and a surprise decision to stay for the season, this is a story about weather, uncertainty and the adventures found in changing plans.
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Reflections at Benjamin’s Chair: A Lundy Experience
Reflecting on life on Lundy, this blog explores how encounters with visitors become embodied memories through walking, place, and shared experience.
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Creating Pilgrimage Routes: Speaking at Walk Listen Create
Tuesday 5th May I’m giving a talk as part of Walk Listen Create; an international network of walking artists, researchers and practitioners. The session is called Creating Pilgrimage Routes and it’s an opportunity to share some of the thinking and practice that has been at the heart of my work for several years.
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Finding Stillness at the Battery: A Personal Reflection
Sitting at the top of the Battery is a favoured place to sit and find stillness—when the wind is not westerly! The battery is not too far from the village, so It’s an ideal place to have an alfresco lunch – you can get there within 20 minutes and feel that you have ventured out.…
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Swimming Through Time at Baggy Point
Although I live in a wild, remote place, there are still spots on the mainland that offer that same sense of exposure and wildness. One of those is Baggy Point, near Croyde. I went for a ‘wild swim’ there this week. Swimming at Baggy isn’t something you stumble into — you need to understand the…
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The Sentinels of Lundy: Guardians of the Landing Bay
Discover the Sentinels of Lundy, two striking rock formations in Landing Bay that stand as quiet guardians of the island’s history, landscape, and changing shoreline.
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A Magical Tree on Lundy’s Lower East Path
A Tree that finds you There is a tree on Lundy’s East path, that many people know – even though it isn’t marked on any map. You will find it as you walk along the Lower East Path from Millcombe. There is an opening in the path — and then suddenly it is there, reaching…
