Category: Walking artist
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Empty Landscape
This week I was looking through past study notes and came across notes, from a lecture about working in isolation, by Stephanie Owens, Art University Plymouth. This was a lecture, in response to being at art school at the start of a pandemic. It was suggested that we might look at artists who were drawn…
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Sense in Nature
Practice in Context I am currently studying a Masters in Fine Art at University Arts Plymouth. As a regular walker, I am interested in human engagement with the landscape. The research for my next module ‘Practice in context’, is about how humans connect to nature and specifically which of the five senses people engage, when…
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Wild Weaving
Although I have woven on twigs/branches at home, with an aim to feel more connected to the environment I headed outdoors. My goal was to get out into nature, walk and weave within the trees. The only problem with this is that Lundy is a granite rock and doesn’t have many trees. However as we…
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A writing retreat and a bit of hygge
Felix Gade Hut is situated on the East Side of Lundy Island and was the Time Check office for the Quarry workers in 1863. Courtesy of the Boys Brigade (a group of men who visit Lundy each year) there is now a bench running around the circumference of the hut. This creates a seating area…
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The granite quarries
My travels often take me to Lundy, I like many others are drawn to this granite rock in the middle of the Bristol Channel. On my latest visit it was the quarries on the east side of the Island that were my intended destination for a walk. This desire to engage with the quarry was…
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The Narcissistic Daffodil
In March whilst still in lockdown, I took a back door pilgrimage. The walk I had planned started from my doorstep and its purpose was to link two sites of religious significance. St Anne Chapel and St Brannocks Church. My mini pilgrimage started at St Annes Chapel in Saunton. My intention for this mini pilgrimage…
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Unframed Landscapes
I was recommended a text in my tutorial titled “Unframed Landscapes” by Maja, N. A., and Fowkes, R., (no date) I found this article pertinent to my work as it talks about the potential for the landscape genre to represent inner experience’ and that ‘when admiring a natural landscape, we apply the same aesthetic conventions…
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The sight of the walker
A reflection on William Sharpes article – Part One This is the first part summary taken from William Sharpes paper in Walking Bodies (2020), on reading the paper, I started to find alignment with my work which Sharpe (2020) talked about. The first statement Sharpe ponders is whether; ‘walking art offers its proponents a choice;…
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Lundy: a Pigrimage
The road to a Lundy pilgrimage
Jane Sharkey 