2021 - 2022

Lots of kilometres by foot, and many nights in the tent.

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Wilsons Prom, and its birds and tides, light and colour is a friend to me, and I return again and again.

It is a home to so much beautiful.

Light, colour, sound.

Soft water.

Transparent Seas.

All of the shades of green.

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June-July 2019

164 kilometres across the MacDonnell ranges by foot

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In 2019 and Alex, Marty and Jeremy set out to walk the MacDonnell Ranges in the Northern Territory.

We had made an adventure together before but not on foot. Last time it had been on two wheels, after our paths had intersected in Tashkent, Uzbekistan. The three of us where on epic eastward bound bicycle adventures, but would ride only 26km together.

In the MacDonnell ranges we spent 14 days walking 164 kms. We found a comfortable rhythm and we stuck together through sickness and in health.

My senses worked overtime, and my hands and head drew ferociously in my Larapinta Diary. These are a selection of those pages.

Weight counts for everything on long walks (or so I am told). My drawing materials - a moleskin drawing book, watercolour set and pens weighed about 400grams. That’s also the weight of about 4 dehydrated meals. But regardess of the weight I would count drawing tools an essential part of any adventure kit.

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December 2018-January 2019

Approximately 3200 kilometres in our Van (Vannos).

Melbourne - Tocumwal - Narrandera (a swim) - Goobang N.P - Yeoval - Towarri N.P - Boomoo Boomoo N.P - Toowoomba - Oxley Wild Rivers N.P - Goulburn River N.P - Narrandera (a swim in the river again) - Melbourne.

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In early 2017 I spent 6 weeks living with 5 other artists in an old Rabbi’s house in the crumbling Medina of Sefrou, Morocco nestled amongst the Middle Atlas Mountains. It was very cold and from the roof top of our old house we could see snow settle on the mountains .

I set out to make a map of the old Medina - as it turned out it would be the first map made of this place, and lots of residents had never seen their town represented on paper. At first is was very hard to find my way around the narrow winding streets, but after a week or two things became familiar.

I made a series of drawings and prints following this residency which were exhibited at Off The Kerb in 2018 - see more here

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August 2011 - December 2012.

17,000 kms by bicycle, a 24 hour train ride in China and an unknown amount of kilometres by sea faring vessels.

25 metres of sketchbook pages

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Selected pages from my sketchbooks made during a long bike ride. I drew almost every day - often in the tent. At the beginning I used Moleskin japanese folding albums, but when we left Europe we couldn’t get those anymore and so we started to make our own books. When each one was full I posted them home - miraculously they all made it!

After returning home I used all of these little journals to make a series of large scale maps which were exhibited at a show in Melbourne and published as a book “Borderless”.

See here for more about Borderless and the maps

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