man in the woods
@maninthewoods.co.uk
• Walking artist doing everything the slow way
• I make drawings and artefacts in reaction to the landscape and folk culture of southern Britain as I get to know it on my Friday Walk
• www.maninthewoods.co.uk
• I make drawings and artefacts in reaction to the landscape and folk culture of southern Britain as I get to know it on my Friday Walk
• www.maninthewoods.co.uk
This is one of my favourite gates in a road of garages near me. I’m not a painter but if I were one then I’d like to be able to use colour and shape this beautifully.
November 13, 2025 at 7:11 AM
This is one of my favourite gates in a road of garages near me. I’m not a painter but if I were one then I’d like to be able to use colour and shape this beautifully.
That was a spooky walk!
I very rarely feel uncomfortable on a walk but being surrounded by fog makes everything feel… other.
A bit like walking in the dark, you just don’t know what’s out there.
youtube.com/shorts/Qa0S_...
I very rarely feel uncomfortable on a walk but being surrounded by fog makes everything feel… other.
A bit like walking in the dark, you just don’t know what’s out there.
youtube.com/shorts/Qa0S_...
October 31, 2025 at 3:50 PM
That was a spooky walk!
I very rarely feel uncomfortable on a walk but being surrounded by fog makes everything feel… other.
A bit like walking in the dark, you just don’t know what’s out there.
youtube.com/shorts/Qa0S_...
I very rarely feel uncomfortable on a walk but being surrounded by fog makes everything feel… other.
A bit like walking in the dark, you just don’t know what’s out there.
youtube.com/shorts/Qa0S_...
Here’s a page from my sketchbook where I planned out the linocut. I love to see the grids and rules people create when making a sign by hand. Often they result in a bit of awkwardness.
October 24, 2025 at 2:28 PM
Here’s a page from my sketchbook where I planned out the linocut. I love to see the grids and rules people create when making a sign by hand. Often they result in a bit of awkwardness.
I made this little linocut as a tribute to the many wonderful handmade signs I’ve come across on my Friday Walk
October 24, 2025 at 2:24 PM
I made this little linocut as a tribute to the many wonderful handmade signs I’ve come across on my Friday Walk
I also saw what is surely the best sign ever made:
October 24, 2025 at 9:11 AM
I also saw what is surely the best sign ever made:
I had great light for this week’s Friday Walk ✨ youtube.com/shorts/lsMOT...
October 24, 2025 at 9:10 AM
I had great light for this week’s Friday Walk ✨ youtube.com/shorts/lsMOT...
October 17, 2025 at 1:24 PM
What do you call this plant?
A while ago I asked on here and on instagram what different names people have for this plant. A lot of people said Bindweed, Convolvulus, or Morning Glory. But I was surprised at how many names I was given that were similar to the one I know: Granny-pop-out-of-bed
A while ago I asked on here and on instagram what different names people have for this plant. A lot of people said Bindweed, Convolvulus, or Morning Glory. But I was surprised at how many names I was given that were similar to the one I know: Granny-pop-out-of-bed
October 13, 2025 at 6:55 PM
What do you call this plant?
A while ago I asked on here and on instagram what different names people have for this plant. A lot of people said Bindweed, Convolvulus, or Morning Glory. But I was surprised at how many names I was given that were similar to the one I know: Granny-pop-out-of-bed
A while ago I asked on here and on instagram what different names people have for this plant. A lot of people said Bindweed, Convolvulus, or Morning Glory. But I was surprised at how many names I was given that were similar to the one I know: Granny-pop-out-of-bed
A very aspirational display in the window of a local charity shop
October 8, 2025 at 1:32 PM
A very aspirational display in the window of a local charity shop
Just like I’ll live with this accidental ink spot.
October 7, 2025 at 3:00 PM
Just like I’ll live with this accidental ink spot.
But it does mean the decorative borders on those pages have been swallowed into the makeshift binding. I will live with this…
October 7, 2025 at 2:56 PM
But it does mean the decorative borders on those pages have been swallowed into the makeshift binding. I will live with this…
Luckily, I’ve been drawing decorative borders on some of the pages, so the stitching doesn’t interfere with the recipes…
October 7, 2025 at 2:54 PM
Luckily, I’ve been drawing decorative borders on some of the pages, so the stitching doesn’t interfere with the recipes…
I’ve carefully removed some of those destabilised pages and stitched them to more stable page…
October 7, 2025 at 2:52 PM
I’ve carefully removed some of those destabilised pages and stitched them to more stable page…
Recipe book update:
When I first started this book, I foolishly cut out a few pages where I’d made some mistakes. This, predictably, destabilised the binding for some of the other pages…
When I first started this book, I foolishly cut out a few pages where I’d made some mistakes. This, predictably, destabilised the binding for some of the other pages…
October 7, 2025 at 2:49 PM
Recipe book update:
When I first started this book, I foolishly cut out a few pages where I’d made some mistakes. This, predictably, destabilised the binding for some of the other pages…
When I first started this book, I foolishly cut out a few pages where I’d made some mistakes. This, predictably, destabilised the binding for some of the other pages…
Coincidentally, I then discovered that the word “miniature” originally referred to drawings made in a red pigment in medieval manuscripts. It’s only because those drawings happened also to be small that “miniature” came to mean a small drawing.
Here’s my print, which is a miniature in both senses.
Here’s my print, which is a miniature in both senses.
October 6, 2025 at 12:50 PM
Coincidentally, I then discovered that the word “miniature” originally referred to drawings made in a red pigment in medieval manuscripts. It’s only because those drawings happened also to be small that “miniature” came to mean a small drawing.
Here’s my print, which is a miniature in both senses.
Here’s my print, which is a miniature in both senses.
When I got back to the studio, I turned it into a miniature linocut, which I printed in red ink
October 6, 2025 at 12:47 PM
When I got back to the studio, I turned it into a miniature linocut, which I printed in red ink
I made this drawing of the cosy little fields from up on Glastonbury Tor on my Friday Walk recently
October 6, 2025 at 12:46 PM
I made this drawing of the cosy little fields from up on Glastonbury Tor on my Friday Walk recently
Monday: drying herbs and homemade curtains
October 6, 2025 at 11:16 AM
Monday: drying herbs and homemade curtains
I finally bought myself an old walking stick! youtube.com/shorts/51TvO...
October 3, 2025 at 6:41 AM
I finally bought myself an old walking stick! youtube.com/shorts/51TvO...
Tesco had no rosemary yesterday.
On my way home I saw a huge rosemary bush in a garden, so I asked if I might have a single sprig.
The owner me gave me more rosemary than I’ll get through in a year, and lots of sage!
He told me to help myself any time.
Should we all have communal herb gardens?
On my way home I saw a huge rosemary bush in a garden, so I asked if I might have a single sprig.
The owner me gave me more rosemary than I’ll get through in a year, and lots of sage!
He told me to help myself any time.
Should we all have communal herb gardens?
October 3, 2025 at 5:31 AM
Tesco had no rosemary yesterday.
On my way home I saw a huge rosemary bush in a garden, so I asked if I might have a single sprig.
The owner me gave me more rosemary than I’ll get through in a year, and lots of sage!
He told me to help myself any time.
Should we all have communal herb gardens?
On my way home I saw a huge rosemary bush in a garden, so I asked if I might have a single sprig.
The owner me gave me more rosemary than I’ll get through in a year, and lots of sage!
He told me to help myself any time.
Should we all have communal herb gardens?
Right. What names do you know for this plant? I’ll start:
I call it Granny-pop-out-of-bed (which my Granny taught me)
I call it Granny-pop-out-of-bed (which my Granny taught me)
September 27, 2025 at 10:06 PM
Right. What names do you know for this plant? I’ll start:
I call it Granny-pop-out-of-bed (which my Granny taught me)
I call it Granny-pop-out-of-bed (which my Granny taught me)
A nice afternoon sitting and drawing the fields below: youtube.com/shorts/cosvY...
September 26, 2025 at 6:17 AM
A nice afternoon sitting and drawing the fields below: youtube.com/shorts/cosvY...
A desk snapshot. I enjoy these little accidental arrangements I catch happening
September 22, 2025 at 12:15 PM
A desk snapshot. I enjoy these little accidental arrangements I catch happening
You won’t enjoy this week’s Friday Walk if you have a dislike of the following:
• pretty villages
• friendly cats
• great cider farms
youtube.com/shorts/mMQHj...
• pretty villages
• friendly cats
• great cider farms
youtube.com/shorts/mMQHj...
September 19, 2025 at 11:55 AM
You won’t enjoy this week’s Friday Walk if you have a dislike of the following:
• pretty villages
• friendly cats
• great cider farms
youtube.com/shorts/mMQHj...
• pretty villages
• friendly cats
• great cider farms
youtube.com/shorts/mMQHj...
The equinox is a slightly overlooked time of the year. I like to think of it as a brief pause, a moment of quiet anticipation before the days days become shorter than the nights.
I designed this patch with 12 circles of daylight and 12 circles of darkness to celebrate that brief moment of balance.
I designed this patch with 12 circles of daylight and 12 circles of darkness to celebrate that brief moment of balance.
September 18, 2025 at 12:54 PM
The equinox is a slightly overlooked time of the year. I like to think of it as a brief pause, a moment of quiet anticipation before the days days become shorter than the nights.
I designed this patch with 12 circles of daylight and 12 circles of darkness to celebrate that brief moment of balance.
I designed this patch with 12 circles of daylight and 12 circles of darkness to celebrate that brief moment of balance.