I want to share thoughts about connecting – making art whilst walking along a train line. I thought I was walking a ghost line alone, but I found that others carry their own maps of this place. My photographer friend didn’t just capture light and vistas; he captured the skin of the station. Maarten’s generous […]
The recent blogs I have been writing are part of my way to position walking as part of my artistic practice. I learned that this practice has become relational and ecological. I became aware that I want to trust the duration of the walk rather than the finished “picture.” There is a specific kind of […]
The above monochrome images belong to Maarten Venter (a photographer and friend), and me, who added the colour images, taken with my cellular phone. Saturday 11 April 2026: The walk was scheduled to start at 07:30, but (again) rain fell overnight, and we suggested rescheduling, but Maarten, a local photographer and friend, had other plans […]
(Working with “ghostly traces”—infrastructure that has been physically removed but remains visible to those who look closely. Walking artists like Ellen Mueller in Walking as Artistic Practice, and Stuart McAdam’s Lines Lost describe this walking as ‘a tool to reawaken these forgotten histories in the public mind’ and where the journey serves as the primary […]
13 March 2026 My first visit to the site after our holiday was early January and I found that it fell onto the forest floor. My dad passed on that day, and I have not visited the site since. I did not have the motivation or inspiration, and asked myself if this was about a […]
I want to exhibit the coastal rubbings, which I made in December 2025 at a members’ exhibition during March 2026. The drawings were made over a period of 10 days, whilst camping with family and friends on the West Coast of South Africa. I initially planned to take tide-line rubbings and see what the coast […]
Since my formal studies are complete, I have noticed how my attention has shifted from explanation to listening. I’m less interested in resolving my work by figuring out how I will share it in a gallery/exhibition/framing, and more concerned with how that process will participate in the work’s breathing. When structure becomes too certain, I […]
In early January 2026, I began a drawing about a river and life, at a moment when life was deeply hurting. My 95-year-old father had just passed away, a loss that sat heavily alongside the anniversary of the death of my youngest son three years prior. In the landscape of severe grief, I found myself […]
Introduction I am increasingly convinced that awe is an emotion that wants to be shared; this is what drives me to make art. I recently began experimenting with drawing that engages directly with the landscape. These simple constructions or drawing machines — feathers, charcoal, and twine suspended from trees — record the unseen movements of […]