A Walk with Thread and Word for The Margate Bookie September 2018 This is a walk as pilgrimage creating shrines for the Margate Bookie September 2018 Led by Elspeth Penfold. Drawing inspiration from Dee Heddonʼs Walking Library and the book […]
June was a really busy month. I had a solo show of my wind drawings at the Width of Circle gallery in Stourbridge. I exhibited six framed drawings plus two unframed and a sound work. The work was framed by […]
I have just got back from Yorkshire where I was showing work as part of Selfscapes, a group show of work by 25 artists responding to the Dalby Forest location and themes of embodied landscape, self and surroundings, self as narrative, self and body and […]
As I am preparing Along Walk to Nowhere as part of the Whitstable Biennale Satellite program 2018. Here a few thoughts, I recently completed a commission with A.N.D. ( A New Direction) titled My Creative school, where ten artists were […]
City Centre 12 May 2018 – A walk from town to countryside (Crouch Hill, Oxfordshire, UK) Walked by Ruth Broadbent and Rhiannon Evans Blake Morris is walking each of the walks from Ways to Wander by Clare Qualmann and Claire Hind […]
Long distance walks through beautiful places, looking to capture what I see and how I feel
During 2018 to July 2019 I am one of ten artists working as part of a project, ‘Surrey Unearthed’ across the Surrey Hills. I am an artist and papermaker and work by walking, collecting, interacting with people and making.
So here we have a walk in Seasalter (not Margate) in the middle of February, not a gallery in sight. Pushing boundaries with Walking with The Waste Land #icanconnect. A Photo diary of our walk, with some commentary: http://elspethpenfold.blogspot.co.uk/2018/02/walking-with-waste-land-photo-diary-mud.html […]
Where did January and half of February go? The last six weeks have passed in a blur of activity. We got the fantastic news at the beginning of January that our grants for the arts funding bid to Arts Council […]
I have been experimenting with how to document these walks. Here is the latest version. Let me know your thoughts! Postcards from the Waste Land A virtual Walk
Coastal walks remembered in this new painting entitled Black Sea.
The recent storm took me again to the shore. I fought the wind to walk on the shingle and examine the rejected items along the wrack line. String, rubber glove, plastic bottle, shells, bits of crab, bits of stick, […]
I set out with good intentions to write regular posts throughout this project and find I am lacking in this regard. I can make excuses such as juggling 4 school runs a day, then school holidays, 3 […]
I’ve had a busy week end preparing for Wednesday’s walk, Walking in the Footsteps of the Huguenots as part of the exhibition @The Republic of Brexitopia at Espacio Gallery. The walk will start from Espacio at 1 pm. For more […]
I have a meeting in Taunton at 11am. According to Google maps, it’s a 2-hour drive. I follow the instructions dictated out loud by my phone the whole way ‘at the roundabout take the third exit and stay on the […]
the ups & downs of my first artist-in-residence project
A PHOTO DIARY WITH INFORMATION ABOUT DEVELOPMENTS FOR WALKING WITH THE WASTE LAND AT THE MARGATE BOOKIE 2017. Walking with the Waste Land is a community group which is part of a wider project at the Turner Contemporary exploring visual […]
A walk in July A collaborative walk on July 12th with the Garden Gate Community Project and Walking with The Waste Land in Cliftonville, Margate. A photo diary of a series of walks which we began in April. this […]
A JUNE WALK – THINKING ABOUT PROJECTIVE VERSE ,with The Garden Gate community project in Margate. Sadly, I’ve just realised, having written this blog…I forgot to publish! Am now writing the blog for July’s walk….Hope you enjoy this enough to want […]
