Tea and oranges in Paris

‘My practice explores physical and emotional geography, locating experiences of landscapes through transformative cartography. Recent work includes: the visibility of water in painting, painting water with light, and mapping water sources and resources. I am interested in journeys recorded on the land and water, and the plurality of place – never alike / always the same.

I describe myself as having a foot in the arts and a foot in the world. I regard the outdoor environment as my studio, and work in a peripatetic mode. I read about Geopoetics, Information Systems and ‘Pataphysics. I relish ideas of moving beyond a continuous classification in our own image, to a practice of continuous being.

My subject is the natural environment. My methodology is slow travel. I survey forests, mountains, deserts and shorelines. It’s a fantastic life, all about process. I swim in high glacial lakes, climb over big swathes of rock, walk along paths and steep ridges, cross-country ski whole valleys, and cycle large distances. I immerse myself with experiences, and work with great freedom.’

Luce Choules

I heart Luzern

All is peaceful on the lake

For you Luce!

Boy do the Swiss know good clean design

Choosing leathers

Snow time

The first evening it snowed was magical

We went to take some snaps of the new moccasin collection in Highgate woods but the camera battery ran out of juice just after we got there! But the sunlight through the trees was so beautiful it was worth the trip.

The London snowman

Poor fella.

London College of Fashion Private View

Ross explaining his 3D printed soles - a remarkable process he's made full use of. See the full collection at http://showtime.arts.ac.uk/rossbarber.

Hoon Chung

Xiao Tong Zhou

A collaboration with Chinese artisan ceramicists

Benaiah Matheson

Benaiah was creating this artwork on the entrance wall to the London College of Fashion MA private view. Great to see!