Desire Lines

Desire Lines explores the paths we make through both landscape and thought. Inspired by the repeated journeys I walked each day between my studio, fields and woodland, the work began as an exploration of physical routes before gradually expanding into a meditation on habit, memory, repetition and change.

Through scratched and incised surfaces, printmaking, drawing and textiles, the repeated line becomes a record of movement, persistence and transformation. Some paths become deeply worn, while others hesitate, diverge or quietly disappear. Together, the works ask how our repeated actions shape us, and whether new ways of seeing—and new ways of being—can emerge when a familiar route begins to shift.

Desire Lines became the starting point for my ongoing practice, Walking with Attention, where the act of walking itself has evolved into both a creative process and a way of paying deeper attention to the natural world.