Category: Walking Artist
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Lundy’s Mystical Fog: A Weather Experience
Life on Lundy Island in fog: walking, swimming, delayed travel and historic shipwrecks, showing how weather defines the island experience
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World Postcard day -Wendy Mitchell Memorial
To celebrate world postcard day on 1st October, I have placed some specially designed postcards in the Wendy Mitchell letterbox. These postcards have been designed especially for world postcard day by Sharon Read, who also designed and created the current Lundy stamp collection. Sharon and I thought it was apt to place them in this…
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Celebrating National Letter Writing Day from Lundy
“Celebrating National Letter Writing Day from Lundy Island—postcards, geocaches, and the 80 Postcard Project meet global connections through Postcrossing.”
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At the Edge of the World: Lundy and Finisterre
Sitting on the West Coast of Lundy, I often feel I am at the edge of the world. The horizon is wide, the Atlantic rolls out before me in shifting shades of blue, depending on the light. Here on the cliffs’ edgelands, I try to find an escape from an easterly wind. With the sound…
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A Guide to Forest Bathing on Lundy
I spend all year bathing in the sea. But on this day, I decided to stay on the land and do some forest bathing. Forest bathing is known in Japan as Shinrin-Yoku. It originated in Japan in the 1980’s. It involves immersing oneself in the forest atmosphere using sensory experiences like sight, smell, hearing, and…
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The Path to Avalon
August 2020 – a time when COVID restrictions had not yet fully eased. Weekends away had to be in the UK. Having grown used to solitude we thought a pilgrimage could be an interesting thing to do. So we delved into a book titled ‘Pilgrim Pathways’ by Andy Bell. This book features short pilgrimages that…
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A Unique Pilgrimage Experience on Lundy
I am really thrilled to meet people enjoying the pilgrimage booklet. I wrote and printed it as part of my Masters in Fine Art. The little book is available in St Helen’s church. It includes sensory prompts, like discovering the temperature of the granite, walking barefoot, and smelling the yarrow. It has special written contributions…
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Haikus in Type: A Visitor Poetry Project on Lundy
In the spring of 2025, I installed a typewriter in Felix Gade Hut on Lundy. I asked people to connect to the Lundy Landscape through a written Haiku. I was amazed by the number of responses. Mostly visitors contributed, but some of the staff did as well. I received over 250 Haikus! I took these…
