In this video I share a holiday sketchbook, how I prepared it before I went away, the materials I took and what I actually did within it.

I filled up the whole sketchbook from the brand Stillman & Birn, on my week away. It contains all sorts of fragments and ideas. Notes to myself, a curation of other’s wise words, quick observational drawings, scribbles, patterns, marks, repeating motifs…

Its pages were a place to amble, ponder and play. A place to think and be.

Drawing and meandering in my sketchbook at the airport and on the train made the time fly and turned what is usually a dull experience into a delight. I enjoyed the journey.

I drew a few quick drawings of what I could see from my hotel balcony, spending time looking and drawing becomes an experience in itself. This sketchbook is now a physical reminder of a treasured week. Memories and experiences are embedded and imprinted within its pages.

It was also a great reminder that small windows of time making art can add up...

This sketchbook is perhaps not a traditional travel sketchbook. There is no one way to do anything. In our sketchbooks we get to decide what we do and how we do it. There is a freedom and an excitement in that. We get to curate and create in a way that is personal and unique to us and that is part of the joy…