September | 2019 | Fiona Candy

Join us for a companionable, creative group walk through Avenham and Miller Parks, for the Big Draw and Preston Arts Festivals.

During the walk we will introduce simple ways to tune in to and be inspired by our surroundings: the atmosphere and sensory qualities. We will draw, write and make, as we trace our movement through the park, working together to experience and experiment, using materials provided.

Each walk lasts about 2 hours. Places are limited.

Walk 1

The Big Draw event info is here for Saturday October 5th 2019, 14:00 – 16:00 and book at Eventbrite here: here

Walk 2

The Big Draw event info is here for Sunday October 13th, 10:00 – 12:00 and book at Eventbrite here:

A series of other guided walks on a range of topics, organised by the Friends of Winckley Square, will wander and weave through the centre of Preston, during the first three weeks of October 2019 as part of Preston Arts Festival.

More information about all of these walks here

Image above, from: ‘Memory of a walk’ © Fiona Candy, September 2019

Quotation by Paul Klee, from his Pedagogical Sketchbook, first published in 1925.

Examples of pages from Paul Klee’s pedagogical sketchbook, above.

Recently I’ve been drawing in response to experiences of walking through Preston’s city centre parks. On these walks I made my way intuitively, without any plan and sketched out routes and perceptual aspects as I moved along, using pencil line at first. I added to these very rough drawings later and made others from memory. I then combined elements and developed the drawings digitally.

I developed my own form of walking notation – (see earlier blog posts for more detail) and use it to trace and transcribe the walking activities.

As well as the work of Paul Klee, music and dance notation have been strong influences.

Above: small sections of walk ‘notation’ from my sketchbook

Above; John Cage music score

Above: a ‘Hornpipe’, an example of Baroque dance notation

These drawings are not conceived as ‘maps’ or diagrams in a conventional sense: no relationship to compass points or the relative scale of pathways or other features encountered in the park were considered. Rather, the drawings are expressions of spatial, embodied memories, of sensing and moving through ephemeral qualities of landscape.

Google Earth view of Avenham and Miller Parks

Fiona Candy

Month: September 2019

A WALK IN THE PARK

Join us for a companionable, creative group walk through Avenham and Miller Parks, for the Big Draw and Preston Arts Festivals.

More information about all of these walks here

“An active line on a walk, moving freely, without goal. A walk for walk’s sake.”