MEET THE ARTIST(S)
I didn’t set out to be an artist. I just started walking.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
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.
