During the summer of 2021 I walked across the country from John O'Groats to Land's End. Upon completing my journey, I struggled with how to visually express my experience of the walk. Inspired both by the playful and colorful materials employed by ‘outsider artists’ Gordon Anderson and the markmaking of Lachlan Carmichael, I decided to return to the tool of my youth. I allowed the felt tip to lead the depiction of some of the landscapes I had walked through, a process which allowed me to rediscover the simple joy of making whilst at the same helping me process the journey I had been on. The drawing journey through a therapeutic landscape is the result of this process.

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Whilst working on journey through a therapeutic landscape I kept a daily record of my mood, linking my therapeutic experience of walking to a therapeutic experience of making work inspired by walking. The results of this arguably serious reflection are here again conveyed with simple, playful materials from childhood.