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Ruth Broadbent

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Artist · Educator · walk.draw · Drawing · Sculpture · Line · Nature & Ecology · Earth & Water · Co-Director Walking the Land CIC www.ruthbroadbent.com www.ruthbroadbent.com/walk-draw/

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Deep Encounters – Walking The Land

I’m spending a year with a log for Deep Encounters / Walking the Land. I’ll add updates on my website. Read more about the project and other artists here
walkingtheland.org.uk/deep-encount...

07.02.2026 16:01 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Deep Encounters: LogBook - Ruth Broadbent Drawn to a glimmer of water hidden in a small hollow of a log, I walked around it, peered into gaps, noted lichen marks, fungi and the aptly placed score lines at its centre. I mapped the pool of rain...

Drawn to a glimmer of water hidden in a hollow of a log, I walked around it, peered into gaps, noted lichen marks, fungi and the aptly placed score lines at its centre. I mapped the pool of rainwater and will record rainfall over a year: a miniature puddle world
www.ruthbroadbent.com/walking-art/...

07.02.2026 15:57 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

Looks great Nic. Congratulations 🙌

26.01.2026 21:46 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

Will be posting more on this soon. I’ll be spending lots of time with a log in the woods for Deep Encounters. Tamsin has written about her patch of land here

18.01.2026 16:07 — 👍 3    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0

Fascinating insights into the creative process and artwork of Stanley Donwood and Thom Yorke. A wonderful exhibition @ashmoleanmuseum.bsky.social
Oxford.

18.01.2026 15:56 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
Last Tuesday Café – Walking The Land

Collectif Bonneau-Knight will be presenting some of their work at this month's WtL Last Tuesday Café. Let me know, or contact Walking the Land, if you’d like to join us online next week, Tues 25 Nov, and we can send you link and info
walkingtheland.org.uk/last-tuesday...

19.11.2025 15:30 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Walking and Drawing: A Wobbly Line - Ruth Broadbent After walking and drawing tracks and lines for years, this line I now walk falters and wobbles, moves side to side, up and down. How do I negotiate this new way of propelling myself forwards and creat...

Walking and Drawing: A Wobbly Line, my latest artwork, a 4-min video with drawing and text, is now on my website blog with links to watch the video. Am looking forward to presenting it at 4WCoP #4WCoP2025
ruthbroadbent.com/drawing/walk...

09.10.2025 16:43 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
4th World Congress of Psychogeography - Swansea The 10th and final iteration of 4WCoP - a psychogeography festival exploring Swansea city centre in playful and discursive ways!

Looking forward to presenting a new work, Walking and Drawing: A Wobbly Line at The Fourth World Congress of Psychogeography in Swansea on Saturday 11 October. Tickets are free and can be booked here if you’d like to join us at #4WCoP2025

www.eventbrite.com/e/4th-world-...

06.10.2025 15:31 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Celebrating Rivers

Info and book tickets for the UK River Summit at www.theriversummit.com

01.07.2025 14:21 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Drawing Water, from puddles to rivers and sea - Ruth Broadbent Spending time by or in water seeps into my artwork, from puddles to rivers and sea, rain, snow and hail storms. For the UK River Summit exhibition, I have selected a range of watery works to reflect t...

Spending time by or in water seeps into my art, from puddles to rivers, sea, rain, snow, hail. For the UK River Summit exhibition on 8 July, I’ve selected drawings linking water in all its forms, as edges blur between land and rivers, rain, mist, and atmosphere. www.ruthbroadbent.com/uncategorize...

01.07.2025 14:21 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 1    📌 0
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As I walk I draw - Ruth Broadbent As I walk I draw, As I draw I walk. Walking a line for Line(s) of Enquiry exhibition and symposium. Words and drawn marks on paper flow seasonally, entwining movement, observations, sounds and convers...

As I walk I draw, As I draw I walk. Walking a line for Line(s) of Enquiry exhibition & symposium. Words and drawn marks on paper flow seasonally, entwining movement, observations, sounds, conversations with memories of people, time, place.
ruthbroadbent.com/uncategorize...

19.06.2025 17:21 — 👍 3    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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17th June - Ruth Broadbent — art-sauce Ruth Broadbent is an artist and lecturer based in Banbury. https://ruthbroadbent.com 17th June 2025 6:30 pm – 9pm at Magdalen Road Studios Ruth Broadbent’s creative practice is inspired by natur...

I’ll be giving an artist talk and showing some of my artwork at art-sauce Oxford if any of you are in the area. Tues 17 June 6.30pm. Tickets & info here art-sauce.org/shop/p/qh482... @mothsailor.bsky.social

10.06.2025 18:39 — 👍 3    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Leanne Betasamosake Simpson @biidaasamose.bsky.social talking about Theory of Water is on Between the Covers @davidnaimon.bsky.social podcast.

24.05.2025 11:41 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Finding connections through water this week from re-reading rain chapter in Braiding Sweetgrass by Robin Wall Kimmerer to listening to Leanne Betasamosake Simpson on Theory of Water. All resonate in different ways to my sensory approach to making artwork around water, seas, rivers, rain.

24.05.2025 11:41 — 👍 8    🔁 0    💬 2    📌 0
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Is a River Alive? – with Robert Macfarlane Listening for the voices of rivers, acclaimed author Robert Macfarlane finds himself in the depths of their mystery. Tracing his journeys with three willful waterways, he asks how we can remember rive...

For some inspiring rivers and water listening…
Is a River Alive? An Interview with @robgmacfarlane.bsky.social on @emergencemagazine.bsky.social
emergencemagazine.org/conversation...

20.05.2025 17:00 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 1
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Celebrating Rivers

Looking forward to exhibiting some of my artwork and meeting lots of water people at The UK River Summit and Festival on 8 July. Info and tickets here:
www.theriversummit.com

20.05.2025 16:00 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
nature drawing nature - online seminar, 3 and 4 April 2025 | BBDS - Black Book: Drawing and Sketching

This looks good:
nature drawing nature - online seminar, 3 and 4 April 2025
journals.ap2.pt/index.php/BB...

02.04.2025 18:03 — 👍 2    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
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Tonight! Live from Guimarães, Portugal, WALC 7 - join us to celebrate 1 year of WALC activities! Feat. a walk through of Babak Fakhamzadeh’s "In Loving Memory" exhibition @TheWalkingBody. http://dlvr.it/TJn5hd 19:00 Portugal/UK
#walctogether #walc

27.03.2025 09:16 — 👍 3    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0

Thanks for being part of the Line(s) of Enquiry symposium Clare. We’ve had lots of lovely feedback from the day.

27.03.2025 09:33 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
A paved area with plants growing in the cracks and a metal pole sticking up. Chalk writing labels one of the planets, mouse ear cress. An action following a walking recipe by the artist Claire collison

A paved area with plants growing in the cracks and a metal pole sticking up. Chalk writing labels one of the planets, mouse ear cress. An action following a walking recipe by the artist Claire collison

Great day today hearing about, talking about & doing some walking art. with discussion on collaboration & community connection, so-called liminal spaces, place-making, place-growing & place-guarding, with the fab #walkingtheland collective #walkingart #drawing #walkcreate

21.03.2025 21:32 — 👍 11    🔁 1    💬 2    📌 0

Thanks Lucy 😊

23.03.2025 13:38 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
Line(s) of Enquiry 2025 – Walking The Land

Line(s) of Enquiry is an exhibition and symposium developed by Hardwick Gallery and Walking the Land, a multi-disciplinary artists’ collective.
Info and exhibition catalogue:
walkingtheland.org.uk/lines-of-enq...

23.03.2025 11:04 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 1
Pen nib drawing black lines on paper above a photo of handwritten words in black pen on a coil of long thin paper. Details from artwork by Ruth Broadbent.

Pen nib drawing black lines on paper above a photo of handwritten words in black pen on a coil of long thin paper. Details from artwork by Ruth Broadbent.

‘As I walk I draw (Moving Breath)’ and ‘As I walk I draw (Tracklines)’ - new works I’ve made for Line(s) of Enquiry.
Exhibition continues for a few more days, until 27 March, at Hardwick Gallery, UoG, Cheltenham.

23.03.2025 11:04 — 👍 4    🔁 0    💬 2    📌 0

After lunch and the opportunity to take part in a group walking/drawing session with our guest panellists and WtL artists, the final discussion between Clare Qualmann, Richard Keating, and Paul Wakelam will explore ideas around walking as a creative, collaborative practice
@cqualmann.bsky.social

11.02.2025 13:55 — 👍 1    🔁 1    💬 0    📌 0

We will hear from WtL artists Janette Kerr, Ruth Broadbent, Valerie Coffin Price, Amanda Steer about their relationship to line, drawing and location. Jean Boyd, Dan Keech and Sarah Bowden will approach the exhibition as a thought experiment and discuss what the project initiates (2/3)

11.02.2025 13:55 — 👍 1    🔁 1    💬 1    📌 0
Line(s) of Enquiry Exhibition & Symposium 2025 – Walking The Land

Tickets now bookable for Line(s) of Enquiry symposium Fri 21 March. I’ll be walking, drawing and presenting work - look forward to seeing some of you there. Exhibition & symposium by Hardwick Gallery and Walking the Land artists (1/3)
walkingtheland.org.uk/lines-of-enq...

11.02.2025 13:55 — 👍 4    🔁 1    💬 1    📌 0
Close up of a plant root through circular lens of microscope with hint of a full moon circle appearing

Close up of a plant root through circular lens of microscope with hint of a full moon circle appearing

The moon in a microscope.
A wonderful weekend of creative conversations, presentations and art at Growing Places / Walking the Land at Museum in the Park, Stroud. Thanks for inviting me to do a walk.draw workshop - what a great setting for it! Exhibition is still on if you near Stroud.

07.02.2025 20:11 — 👍 3    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0
Poster with info on dates, times and qr code for more info

Poster with info on dates, times and qr code for more info

I’m doing a walk.draw for Growing Places at 11.30am Saturday 1 Feb if any of you are in the Stroud area. More info at walking the land and on walk.draw page of my website.

31.01.2025 11:53 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

Congratulations Tamsin and Marie-Anne 🙌

28.01.2025 21:49 — 👍 0    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

That’s great news Tamsin - congratulations 🙌

28.01.2025 21:47 — 👍 1    🔁 0    💬 0    📌 0

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