Ruth Broadbent

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
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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

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Celebrating Rivers

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

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...

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.
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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

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

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.

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
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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

This looks good:
nature drawing nature - online seminar, 3 and 4 April 2025
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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

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

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

Thanks Lucy 😊

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...

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.

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
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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)

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)
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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.

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.

Congratulations Tamsin and Marie-Anne 🙌

That’s great news Tamsin - congratulations 🙌

Lines in ice, transparent lines, etched lines, bubble lines, meandering lines, directional lines… so many different lines.

Ice Puddle - a lucky Puddle World find whilst out walking, full of lines.

‘The tactile experience of creative walking’
An article on my recent work, Fieldwalking - Groundlines, 72 drawings made whilst walking, shortlisted for the Marŝarto Awards 2024 for walking art.

Ice on puddle with leaves, grass and twigs visible near surface

Puddle Worlds (ice)
New Year walk

Fieldwalking – Groundlines 72 Groundlines drawings inspired by walking the landscape where a collection of flints have been found.

Delighted that Fieldwalking - Groundlines is Shortlisted for the Marŝarto Awards 2024 for walking art.
Am enjoying reading about all the selected Walking Arts pieces @walklistencreate.org Congratulations to all on the list
#WalkingArtists #WalkingArt #WalkDraw
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It’s time for the Marŝarto24 shortlist Celebrating the best in walking art!

🏆 The Marŝarto Awards are back - celebrating the best in walking art! 🎨👣 We're proud to reveal the shortlist of 13 amazing finalists 🌍 Featuring artists from around the world. Check out their work here: http://dlvr.it/TGX6HM #WalkingArt #Marŝarto24 #ArtAwards

Looking forward to connecting with other #WalkingArtists as we find our feet on bluesky. Thanks for including me on the Walking Artist starter pack @talkingwalking.bsky.social