Song of the Path

Resumo

“How walking and drawing intersect” is an account by walking artist Rosie Montford of her experience of walking and drawing in landscape. Themes of travel, creativity and immersion become interwoven through a meandering walk of sketchbook and practice that a trip to Greece, in order to participate in the Made of Walking 2019 gathering, where this intersection is most keenly felt.

Pausing to draw whilst out walking is shown as a way of locating oneself in the landscape by “losing” oneself in it and yet finding oneself at one in the space. Starting on the Pelion Peninsula and drawing from the actual path ahead; travelling on to Meteora, to walk the old monks’ routes, through woodland to the distant monasteries perched high on the rocks. On Lake Prespes, crossing over to the island of Agios Achillios, a location later shared with participants making a collaborative drawing from the bridge for thewalkshop: “Looking for echoes of the body in landscape”. And finally, a walk along a narrow track on a high promontory down to a remote beach, where struggling with how to make the return ascent, a drawing reveals a route. This group of related studies led on to a series of prints and drawings on the theme: ‘The Song of the Path.’