Having grown up along the Welsh-English border (and later in the Brecon Beacons) hiking has always been a huge part of my life. At 18 I moved to Aberystwyth to study Scenography (theatre/artistic spatial design) and fell in love with the Ceredigion coastline.

Upon graduating, I began to take up hiking in a bigger way: First by ‘bagging’ the 214 Wainwrights in the Lake District. My rule of leaving the car at home and only using public transport attracted attention from Trail Magazine, The Great Outdoors, Lakeland Walker and BBC Cumbria.

I then began moving onto trails (Coast to Coast, West Highland Way, Cumbria Way, Tour du Mont Blanc and sections of the GR5) and recently took part in the Great Outdoors Challenge ‘24.

My interest in the arts is always present: I love photographing the landscapes that I am hiking through, and am currently undertaking the challenge of bagging and photographing all 127 Heaton Cooper Tarns, with an interest in understanding how Cooper interpreted these upland landmarks, and how they reveal our relationship with the landscapes of Lakeland.