I walk landscapes. I make journeys. Landscape, journey: each is essentially a work of the imagination, brought into being by human interpretation and through the constructed languages of painting, poetry, photography and film. They are even more powerfully evoked in our memories. In art, travel – or more specifically the nature of journeying through specific landscapes – leads to the creation of individual narratives that describe personal transition, even a sort of metaphysical trauma. My images and writing describes being in a landscape as an empirical and also an objective experience: it offers an analysis of the familiar, banal and anonymous in the everyday environment, which, through walking and serial revisiting, creates images. These images can be perceived as material evidence of being there or, alternatively, as a record of an emotionally expressive experience, essentially about the walker’s state of being while involved in the act of travelling.
Thank you again for the invitation to be part of this network. Really hope my contribution of this book of 40 contemplations based on the human body and nature to experience as we walk can enrich the way we walk through our lifes and creates community.
I work to translate into images (drawings, photos, videos etc) the sensations felt in the ” cross landscapes “in the broadest sense of the term. Using drawing and painting on paper, even small size, to enclose reflections naming places, names, countries …
Author, poet, lyricist, photographer, artist. Long-distance walker. Co-creator of the Bicentennial Great North Walk. Me books on the Camino de Santiago than any other, includ. poetry and song. See Smashwords.com
Published in Mediterranean Poetry (Stockholm), Long Poems (UK); Feature Poet, Sydney Writers Festival. Member, Diverse Poets, Write-On Authors. Founder, Balmain Institute. Twenty-two books published; over-twenty European photo exhibitions; numerous multi-media/painting exhibitions.
Only his long-distance walks and travel, spare him accusations of workaholism.
I walk landscapes. I make journeys. Landscape, journey: each is essentially a work of the imagination, brought into being by human interpretation and through the constructed languages of painting, poetry, photography and film. They are even more powerfully evoked in our memories. In art, travel – or more specifically the nature of journeying through specific landscapes – leads to the creation of individual narratives that describe personal transition, even a sort of metaphysical trauma. My images and writing describes being in a landscape as an empirical and also an objective experience: it offers an analysis of the familiar, banal and anonymous in the everyday environment, which, through walking and serial revisiting, creates images. These images can be perceived as material evidence of being there or, alternatively, as a record of an emotionally expressive experience, essentially about the walker’s state of being while involved in the act of travelling.
Thank you again for the invitation to be part of this network. Really hope my contribution of this book of 40 contemplations based on the human body and nature to experience as we walk can enrich the way we walk through our lifes and creates community.
I work to translate into images (drawings, photos, videos etc) the sensations felt in the ” cross landscapes “in the broadest sense of the term. Using drawing and painting on paper, even small size, to enclose reflections naming places, names, countries …
I look forward to meeting other Walking Artists through the Walking Artists Network.
new member ( rural North Gloucestershire – UK)
OMG, I found a home of like-minded people. So grateful to be able to join this group.
Author, poet, lyricist, photographer, artist. Long-distance walker. Co-creator of the Bicentennial Great North Walk. Me books on the Camino de Santiago than any other, includ. poetry and song. See Smashwords.com
Published in Mediterranean Poetry (Stockholm), Long Poems (UK); Feature Poet, Sydney Writers Festival. Member, Diverse Poets, Write-On Authors. Founder, Balmain Institute. Twenty-two books published; over-twenty European photo exhibitions; numerous multi-media/painting exhibitions.
Only his long-distance walks and travel, spare him accusations of workaholism.