Landscapes From The Trail
New Art Section Coming Soon
This new page will soon feature a gallery of my landscape sketchbooks and journals that I make on the trail, as well as wanderings closer to home.
I never go for a hike without a sketchbook in my rucksack and sometimes that’s where it stays, but leaving home without one would be like leaving home without a map and compass – you don’t miss it until you need it. Taking time out, even just 10 minutes, to sit and look at a landscape is what makes me feel connected to it. Photographs don’t really do that for me, not with my phone camera anyway – a few seconds looking through a lens and that’s it, I’m moving on, passing through. But a drawing…that’s a journey in itself.
I hope you enjoy coming along.
(Photo: working outside in my sketchbook.)
Sketchbooks
Sketchbook Pages
Sketchbook study made on a walk close to home – one from my Cornish landscape sketchbook
A mixed media drawing of Chactonbury Ring made after my hike on the South Downs Way
Fox and Flies is an old chalk drawing that I still love. I found this beautiful fox cub on the roadside.
Sketch of Chapel Rock, Perranporth Beach on the South West Coast Path
Another sketch from the South West Coast Path – Falmouth
A mini painting from the South Downs Way
A notebook study of a hill at Gladestry on Offa’s Dyke Path
I’ll be back soon with some better images! Have you signed up to my newsletter The Extra Mile? I publish some of my work there from time to time but plan to make it a more regular feature – why not come and see what I get up to? (It’s full of hiking news too, obviously!) There’s a subscribe form just below – I’d love to have you along.
Thanks for reading and happy hiking!
Stephie x