NIMXI NAQRA

Nimxi Naqra is a Maltese phrase that connotes at least two very specific ideas: ‘a bit of walking’; and ‘walking-reading’. The ongoing series of work brings together images conjured through walking and reading the place and the landscape in various countries around the world. Walking allows for attentive reading; it is a means of investigation.

- Rebecca Solnit, Wanderlust (2002, p. 3).

Henry David Thoreau (2006, pp. 15-16) described his own movement in the wilderness as unplanned drifting: “When I go out of the house for a walk, uncertain as yet whither I will bend my steps, and submit myself to my instinct to decide for me, I find, strange and whimsical as it may seem, that I finally and inevitably settle southwest, toward some particular wood or meadow or deserted pasture or hill in that direction.”

- Henry David Thoreau, Walking (2006).

My walks often assume the characteristics of unplanned journeys through the landscape. I follow the terrain and see where it takes me.

Muddy Waters, oil on linen, 100 x 70cm, 2022

Henderskelfe, mixed media on canvas, 120 x 80cm, 2021

Uncharted Territory - The Calm within the Storm, mixed media on linen, 120 x 140cm, 2020

Walden, mixed media on wood, 73 x 47cm, 2019

-8 Degrees, mixed media on wood, 59 x 40cm, 2019

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