MEET THE ARTIST(S)
​​​I didn’t set out to be an artist. I just started walking.
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It was my dog, Pika who taught me how. Pika is a schonoodle and a rescue who's a bit nervous, excitable and very loud! Once she knows you, she'll love you forever. Before Pika my exposure to the wilder places of the UK was limited. But Pika is a wild dog at heart. She needed the outdoors, and eventually, so did I.
We walked through woods, over hills, along the edges of things. Bit by bit, I learned how to look not just at where we were going, but at where we were.
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At some point, I started sketching. Pencil on paper doodles, nothing serious. Just small, quiet marks to remember how it felt to stand in a certain spot at a certain time. The walk is still the most important part. It’s where the story begins, I have to be there to feel it.
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Marking The Wild is a hobby that turned into a home for everything I’ve found along the way. A way to turn walks into artwork that others can hang up, hold onto, or revisit when they need to feel part of something bigger.
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My aim is to walk through every county in the UK (at least once) to mark as many summits, rivers, seashores and forests as I can before I can’t anymore.
Every piece begins outside with my boots on, a pencil & sketch paper in hand and a map to follow or ignore where appropriate. Back home, I make a master pencil sketch and scan it into my iPad, where the building begins. I layer the elements of colour, texture, trees, rocks, sky, water, all one on top of another, like pieces of a path slowly fitting together.
It’s a slow, instinctive process.​
Colour, for me, is a way of paying attention. It brings adventure, perspective, and sometimes, a kind of clarity, especially in places that might seem ordinary at first glance. I use bold, joyful palettes to say that 'this' mattered. I was here. I felt something.
And maybe you will too.​
The artwork is just one part of the picture. Every print comes with The Footnotes: a bundle of sketches, maps, and reflections from the path that brought the piece to life. It’s a quiet invitation to walk it yourself, to notice something new, or to share your own stories in return.
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Because this isn’t just about the view.
It’s about how it felt to be there and what it might mean for you, too.
Before Marking The Wild, I spent more than a decade as an Theatre Maker and Writer; creating plays, installations, poetry and public events that brought people together to share stories.
I was drawn to experiences that made space for conversation: encounters between strangers, fleeting connections in unexpected places, stories whispered or spoken out loud. Writing was always at the core — as a way of exploring, remembering, and reimagining the world around us.
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These days, the format looks different: a pencil sketch, a map, a print on a wall, but the intention is still the same.
To gather stories. To walk through them. To share them in ways that feel human and true.
