Join us for this explorative webinar using a combination of psychogeographical approaches to deepen your relationship with your surrounding environment.

n: Psychogeography – the study of geographical environment on the mind, or on behaviour. 

Using a combination of research, imagination, critical thinking, photography, sketching and painting, environmental artist Greg Humphries leads you on a journey of exploration into this rich and relatively unknown artistic genre. Ideal for those that want to find ways to advance their landscape painting, or simply look at landscape in a different way. Whether your artwork is based in abstraction, realism or conceptualism; this webinar aims to deepen your relationship with your environment, and the art you produce in it. Through a combination of examples and practical exercises you will apply a selection of Psychogeographical techniques and principles to creating art in urban or rural environments. 

Arising from theorist Guy Debord in the 1950’s, and its roots based in the Situationist movement, psychogeography arose to find alternatives and new ways forward through an interrogation of space and history. Examples we will work with in the webinar are “The Derive”, “The Detournement” and “The Palimpsest. 

Taking the example of the ‘Derive’; or walking without purpose. It better connects the walker to the environment because purposeful walking has an agenda (getting from A to B) and as such we do not absorb certain aspects of the world around us. The ‘Derive’ allows us to take our time, amble about, absorb and examine elements of the landscape we find ourselves in and record their effect on us through the artwork we produce. 

To buy a copy of Greg’s book, ‘Walking Backwards: The Magical Art of Psychogeography’, click here.