“I've always journalled throughout my life, but when I went to study abroad in Ireland, the practice of my travel journal truly started to thrive. Ireland's astounding nature, the people, the stories all needed to be remembered and recorded. I usually use watercolour or whatever I have on hand – sometimes I feel like using black ink, sometimes gouache. It's mostly about having fun and relaxing for me. Most of my pages are in both Czech and English.”
Magdalena Konečná, @divoka.tuzka
“I've been keeping holiday journals for 25 years. I'm very much a ‘need to be busy’ person and am useless at sunbathing, so the diaries keep me occupied and provide a canvas for sketching and drawing within a context. I like the simple narrative of a holiday, nothing challenging, just painting…
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The Simple Things (Digital) - 1 Issue, August 2022