In Summer 2017, I turned artist in residence at Deveron Projects. During my sabbatical I undertook a 90 day pilgrimage walking from my home in Huntly, to visit my mother at my childhood home near Munich.

Having lived, loved and travelled a lot both within and outwith Europe, I always felt blessed with my European passport and the privileges it brings. The UK’s Brexit decision has brought this birth right of free movement into question. Walking through Scotland, England, Holland and Germany, the countries I know best, my aim was to discover what this diverse continent has to offer: spiritually, politically, personally. Creating a path, my path, allowed me to reflect on what holds me/us to being a European, and what home means in our current geopolitical situation.

‘Home to Home’ encourages us to take time out and create a path of significance to our own lives, to think about our very personal intentions in the wider globalised context. Documented through daily postcards to my mother, the 1800km walk created a unique route linking old and new friends, exchanging oak leaves and woollen path spun bracelets, while gathering ideas for back home on the way.

For more about this project, see here.