An inspiring visual adventure across Great Britain.
Driven by curiosity, restlessness and a desire to better understand her
own country, artist Alice Stevenson spent two years exploring and
drawing Great Britain.
With an eye for the odd and an antenna for the unexpectedly beautiful,
she documented her slow, attentive forays. Her journeying was wide:
steam trains in Snowdonia, art galleries on remove Scottish islands,
Kent coastlines, Dorset villages, East Anglian saltmarshes, the
erstwhile utopias of Harlow and Portmeirion and the wild fells of
eastern Cumbria. Yet she found many hidden delights in the dense
populations of cities, from Hull and Plymouth, to Belfast and
Edinburgh.
The result is a book celebrating detail, of landscape and architecture,
and creativity, an essential human urge. A rich, artistic journey
through a land deep in natural and man-made puzzles and wonders.