This series of drawings explores the landscape where my maternal family roots took shape. Through walking, research and drawing, I've begun to weave links together, between past and present: piecing together a puzzle that might reconnect me and my daughters with some of our lost maternal lineage.

 

Census records, as well as half-remembered fragments of stories I heard as a child, kept leading me back to a stretch of Watling St, not far from the Roman site of Wall (Letoceum). It's a fascinating section of the A5, steeped in ancient and industrial history, and layered with family memory.

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My Grandma was born on this road, and both her father and grandfather lived and worked here as miners in the local colliery at Chasewater. ​

 

The resulting series of drawings reflects a personal journey - one shaped by hauntings, coincidences, memory and invisible connections through time - all embedded in the landscape of a short, unsung, stretch of the A5 and its surrounds.