2020
![Picture of Stained Glass Labyrinth](graphics/gallery/StainedGlassLabyrinth.png)
What can I say? It was lockdown.
2020
![Picture of Glow in the Dark Labyrinth Ornament](graphics/gallery/BedsideLabyrinth.png)
Another lockdown distraction - a little labyrinth ornament in glow-in-the-dark Fimo.
2019
![Picture of Window Finger Labyrinth](graphics/gallery/bead_Jun2019.png)
Finger labyrinth on glass for window installation, using simple craft shop materials.
2019
![Picture of Sand Labyrinths](graphics/gallery/worldlabday2019.png)
World Labyrinth Day 2019; labyrinth-ising Tentsmuir Beach.
2018
![Picture of Tape Labyrinth](graphics/gallery/Infinity3.png)
A quiet and intimate Celtic knot-style labyrinth, our final time in the ancient Merchant's House overlooking the waters. Kirkcaldy.
2018
![Picture of Turf Labyrinth](graphics/gallery/lindores.png)
Built by Valerie and the local community to my design, in the ruined nave of ancient Lindores Abbey. Newburgh, Fife.
2018
![Picture of Spoon Labyrinth](graphics/gallery/spoonlab.png)
A Native American labyrinth, indoors, with plastic spoons. It shouldn't have worked but somehow did. Near Cupar, Fife.
2017
![Picture of Sketch Labyrinth](graphics/gallery/goal.png)
Draw your labyrinth, write or draw in the things you want to come to you, and walk with finger/eye to keep your subconscious primed for openings.
2017
![Picture of Spoon Labyrinth](graphics/gallery/June28_2017.png)
A University of St Andrews commission, with sun and sea.
2017
![Picture of Tape Labyrinth](graphics/gallery/lifelab18117.png)
An Infinity Knot II that participants could be led blindfolded through by their partner, for a Life Labyrinths workshop at the Merchant's House. Kirkcaldy.
2017
![Picture of Tape Labyrinth](graphics/gallery/Starseed.png)
A Tree of Life maze whose three centres were used for Starseed connectivity, at the former Love and Above Centre near Dundee.
2017
![Picture of Spoon Labyrinth](graphics/gallery/UoSA_May2017.png)
A University of St Andrews commission, in the huge Spanish Garden by the sea.
2017
![Picture of Tape Labyrinth](graphics/gallery/Music08.png)
For the final MusicDance Labyrinth, a swirl of eddies and spirals. University of Dundee.
2017
![Picture of Sheet Labyrinth](graphics/gallery/ReikiLabs_2.png)
A labyrinth of four king-size sheets, velcro, and paint. For a Reiki retreat at the Merchant's House. Kirkcaldy.
2016
![Picture of Tape Labyrinth](graphics/gallery/MusicDance261016.png)
A MusicDance pattern for drumming in and and journeying with the winter spirits. University of Dundee.
2016
![Picture of Frost Labyrinth](graphics/gallery/sneiton_ladywell_anim.gif)
For this residential retreat in Falkland, Fife, I scooshed along in the frost to create the Sneinton/Robin Hood's Race. We walked it by star- and candlelight; next day the frost left and the path remained...
2016
![Picture of Finger Labyrinths](graphics/gallery/finger-labyrinths.png)
Buy A3 craft foam sheets, cut your labyrinth in one sheet (with craft knife or scissors), glue it to the second (use pins to hold the walls at the correct spacings, until the glue's dry).
2016
![Picture of Spoon Labyrinth](graphics/gallery/UoD_CollegeGreen.png)
Commissioned by the University of Dundee for Mental Health Week, appearing at dawn and disappearing at dusk.
2016
![Picture of Tape Labyrinth](graphics/gallery/Music06Lab.png)
Another MusicDance, with an organic heart-shaped centre. University of Dundee.
2016
![Picture of Spoon Labyrinth](graphics/gallery/HeartCentre_May2016.png)
A chakra-vyuha that participants were led through blindfolded, at the Merchant's House. Kirkcaldy.
2016
![Picture of Tape Labyrinth](graphics/gallery/Music04Lab.png)
A lot of MusicDance events that year! Drumming and dancing; University of Dundee.
2015
![Picture of Plasticine Finger Labyrinth](graphics/gallery/plasticine_composite.gif)
To find the finger labyrinth design(s) that feel best for you, try them with rolled plasticine walls on a smooth surface.
2015
![Picture of Tape Labyrinth](graphics/gallery/Samhain2015.png)
An Infinity Knot, for Samhain at the Pagan Moot. Open a door, and in that room was a labyrinth all to yourself! Dundee.
2015
![Picture of Turf Labyrinth](graphics/gallery/falkland-2015.png)
Extending the existing chakra-vyuha from 2012, with Celtic knot-style flourishes. Near Falkland, Fife.
2015
![Picture of Tape Labyrinth](graphics/gallery/Music02.png)
For a MusicDance Labyrinth; a pattern allowing flow and overtaking, within a limited space. University of Dundee.
2015
![Picture of Shrine](graphics/gallery/shrine.png)
A labyrinth shrine for sending energy healing.
2015
![Picture of Tape Labyrinth](graphics/gallery/Music03.png)
For a Midsummer MusicDance, a rebel Medieval was filled with many hopes and dreams for the sea to dissipate. Tentsmuir.
2015
![Picture of Tape Labyrinth](graphics/gallery/Music01.png)
The first MusicDance! A simple Baltic pattern; long endless corridor coils, into another world. University of Dundee.
2014
![Picture of Glowstick Labyrinth](graphics/gallery/midwinter-2014.png)
For once the weather didn't let up; so in howling winds and vertical rain we walked with midwinter. We came out, but the pics didn't!
2014
![Picture of Snow Labyrinth](graphics/gallery/grindleford_dec2014.png)
A teeny foot-labyrinth in an old frozen quarry, above a deep and dangerous pool. Derbyshire.
2014
![Picture of Spoon Labyrinth](graphics/gallery/BookLaunchLab.png)
Celebrating Midsummer with a freeform labyrinth beneath ripe plums. Near Kirkcaldy, Fife.
2014
![Picture of Shell Labyrinth](graphics/gallery/shell_labyrinth.png)
One for the sea fairies, at a part of the beach that was all crushed shells. Anstruther, Fife.
2013
![Picture of Sand Labyrinth](graphics/gallery/thurso-nov2013.png)
Hats off to Paul for this gigantic angular labyrinth on a deserted beach waaaaay Up North! Weirder still to continue on our ramblings, look back and find it a speck. Near Thurso.
2013
![Picture of Chair Maze](graphics/gallery/chairs.png)
A maze made in triple spiral (triskele) form from chairs, to provide an unusual layout while they were being sold off. University of Dundee.
2013
![Picture of Sand Labyrinth](graphics/gallery/tentsmuir2013.png)
Playing with bastions. Tentsmuir.
2012
![Picture of Turf Labyrinth](graphics/gallery/dollar-2012.png)
Commissioned for St James’s Episcopalian church; the Trinity Labyrinth encloses a tree and lets you walk the lower portion, or the full whack. Dollar.
2012
![Picture of Spoon Labyrinth](graphics/gallery/merchants-2012.png)
At the back of the Merchant's House, this labyrinth rounded off the day's retreat. Kirkcaldy.
2012
![Picture of Tape Labyrinth](graphics/gallery/dunfermline-2012.png)
Masking tape labyrinth made for the Scottish Mental Health Arts Festival 2012, in a primary school. Dunfermline.
2012
![Picture of Turf Labyrinth](graphics/gallery/falkland-2012.png)
Laid out in pine blocks; looked amazing from way up in the Lomond Hills. Near Falkland.
2012
![Picture of Spoon Labyrinth](graphics/gallery/orchard-Mar2012.png)
With two centres honouring our dual natures - the Bump Labyrinth. Bridge of Earn.
2011
![Picture of Stone Maze](graphics/gallery/skye_fairy.png)
The Fairy Glen is a hatching place, in stone, of spirals and initials. Paul and me creating a Brain Maze that a few months later had evolved into others' patterns. Skye.
2011
![Picture of Finger Bead Labyrinth](graphics/gallery/fingerbead2.gif)
Here's another easy way to make finger labyrinths: with clear glue, attach beads to a surface in the design of your choice.
2011
![Picture of Sand Labyrinth](graphics/gallery/skye_coral.png)
Coral Beach - a pure white top-sand with deep dark underneaths. Skye.
2011
![Picture of Spoon Labyrinth](graphics/gallery/Orchard2011_comp.gif)
The Galaxy Labyrinth, created indoors (Plan B) because of the storms that day. Bridge of Earn.
2011
![Picture of Spray Paint Labyrinth](graphics/gallery/fintryanimated2.gif)
Commission to spray paint a labyrinth for an arts day in a Dundee park. Fintry.
2011
![Picture of Spoon Labyrinth](graphics/gallery/bridge-of-earn-2011-01.png)
A Chartres labyrinth with bastions for a day retreat. Bridge of Earn.
2011
![Picture of Sand Labyrinth](graphics/gallery/tentsmuir-2011.gif)
You can make a circular Reims in just ten minutes: ensure you've got the axes right, then join the loose ends.
2011
![Picture of Tape Labyrinth](graphics/gallery/perthcathedral.gif)
Commissioned by Perth Cathedral for a prayer weekend; using masking tape ensure it's a low-adhesive type that won't damage floor varnish.
2011
![Picture of Forest Labyrinth](graphics/gallery/tir-na-nog-2011.png)
Sometimes nature dictates the shape. At Tir-na-nOg's pine grove a storm dropped some trees; so I ditched my design and let a land-dictated pattern evolve. Drymen.
2010
![Picture of Marble Run Labyrinth](graphics/gallery/marble.png)
Kind of what it says on the tin!
2010
![Picture of Forest Labyrinth](graphics/gallery/tir-na-nog-2010.png)
With clarsach music for walkers from Nettie Roberts, a labyrinth coiling between trunks like an unravelled bird's nest. Drymen.
2009
![Picture of Sand Labyrinth](graphics/gallery/westsands-2009.png)
Ruth in an early sand labyrinth. St Andrews.
2009
![Picture of Snow Labyrinth](graphics/gallery/in-the-snow-2009.png)
A snowy day, unable to get to work, so walked instead along the shore and made this Roman Labyrinth. Crail, Fife.
2008
![Picture of Water Labyrinth](graphics/gallery/spaghetti.png)
A budget project: baking tray, BluTack, spaghetti snapped to 1 inch pieces. Make a labyrinth, add 5mm water and a lit candle.
2008
![Picture of Sand Labyrinth](graphics/gallery/tentsmuir-2008.png)
Back in the days when a simple line could suffice :-)
2007
![Picture of Maze in a Box](graphics/gallery/mazeinabox.png)
Maze in a Box: Take a ream of A4 paper, cut each sheet into 5 landscape strips, staple a rubber band to each strip end to form chains. Use BluTack to stick to floor.
2006
![Picture of Bush Labyrinth](graphics/gallery/parkerville_anim.gif)
Peter Roden in a bamboo labyrinth made at Parkerville Auditorium, near Perth, Australia. Each night ducks and kangaroos (or yowies) would rearrange the design.
2005
![Picture of Snow Labyrinth](graphics/gallery/snow_lendrick_2005.png)
Path scooshed out by feet, pristine snow left as walls.
2005
![Picture of Turf Labyrinth](graphics/gallery/lauralab.gif)
A birthday gift, finished (more by luck than design) to the exact Winter Solstice.
2004
![Picture of Forest Labyrinth](graphics/gallery/glasgow-2004.png)
The trispiral maze from Newgrange C10, applied to a pine grove at Tir-na-nOg, near Drymen.
2004
![Picture of Stone Labyrinth](graphics/gallery/trossachs-2003.png)
Made from 'soul stones' from the Sweat Lodge, I send healing each when I lived at the centre, and it's still there today with its witch hazel at the centre. Lendrick Lodge.
2000
![Picture of Turf Maze](graphics/gallery/dunbar-2000.png)
A maze for plants and vegetables. Bit of a pain mowing the paths.
1984
![Picture of Dream Labyrinth](graphics/gallery/dream.png)
Labyrinths and mazes will creep into your dreams, if they're not there already. This pic is what I drew after a dream that started me on this journey.