Walking to London

I have travelled the journey back and forth from London to my part of Hampshire since my childhood. Sixty years of cars and trains up and down, seeing and forgetting the view from the window. Now I want to really engage with this journey by doing it on foot over a year. I will divide the path into bite-size, or perhaps hike-size pieces using the rail network to get me to the walk starts and home again.

Each stage will provide its own inspiration for art works. I’m expecting to make sketches, ink drawings, photographs and paintings. I’m thinking about foraging for materials to make my own inks from what’s available along the way. I’m working on ideas for hand-drawn maps about the places I visit.

It will be a home-grown adventure in serial parts. This blog will tell the tale. Take the first step and follow me.