I regularly use walking as an artform in its own right, completing walks varying in duration from 1 day to thirteen days. I usually adopt a set of disciplines for each journey, in the nature of a pilgrimage. I document the walks through sketches and photographs made en-route, and follow this up later with writing, drawing and woodcut prints reflecting on the experience of the walk.

Widdershins Walk: Round The Edge of Reading is a collaborative project with artist and writer Geoff Sawers; an exploration of the edge-places around Reading, UK. Over the course of five walks, during the four seasons of 2024, the collaborators found their way, slowly around the footpaths and old green lanes bordering their home town. The book documenting their journey and reflections on local history and natural history is richly illustrated with Geoff’s paintings and drawings, and Peter’s woodcuts and photographs. It was published in 2025 by Peculiarity Press.

In 2018, to mark the centenary of the Armistice and to pay homage to 20th Century painter Sit Stanley Spencer, Peter Driver conducted a three-day walk from the Stanley Spencer Gallery in Cookham to the Sandham Memorial Chapel in Burghclere, purpose built to house Spencer’s Great War paintings.
A book documenting the walk was published by Peculiarity Press in 2019. It contains the sketches, photographs and bird observations made along the route and the prints, poetry and prose created in response to the experience. Copies can be purchased here.

Peter Driver on Pilot Hill, the highest point in Hampshire at the start of a three day walk in 2015 from the chalk Downs, across the chalk streams of the Test, and Dever, to reach the Itchen at Winchester. The resulting work was exhibited at the Winchester Gallery as part of CHALK, for 10Days festival Winchester.