Walking with Attention
Current Practice
Over the past year my practice has gradually shifted from making artwork about our relationship with the natural world to using walking itself as a creative process.
What began as research for a new body of work, Desire Lines, has evolved into a daily practice of walking, observing and responding to place.
Each walk begins without an agenda.
By slowing down and allowing curiosity rather than expectation to lead, I have discovered that attention itself can become a creative act.
The walks generate artist books, temporary woodland interventions, drawings, prints and reflective writing, but perhaps more importantly they continually reshape the way I experience both landscape and myself.
Increasingly, this practice has also become something I share with others.
Through Walking with Attention, I invite participants to slow down, notice more deeply and reconnect with the natural world through gentle walking and creative response. Using simple prompts, walking objects and opportunities for reflection, the emphasis is not on artistic ability or identifying species, but on creating space to notice, wonder and be present.
Rather than teaching people what to see, these walks create the conditions in which they begin to notice for themselves.
My hope is that people leave feeling lighter, calmer and more connected—as though they have taken a really deep breath—and with a renewed desire to make space for slower, more attentive moments in everyday life.
This work continues to grow and evolve through daily walking, conversation and creative experimentation, remaining open to whatever the landscape quietly offers next.
Walking with Attention includes:
- Creative walking experiences
- Walking Objects
- Artist books and Field Notes
- Temporary woodland interventions
- Drawing and reflective practice
- Creative wellbeing workshops
- Collaborative projects with organisations and communities
Attention brings abundance.
