Painting Utterly Brilliant Britain
Timmy Mallett's
Cycling Circumnavigation of Great Britain
The origin storymenu_book
This story starts over 200 years ago when Napoleon discouraged people from travelling to Europe, and artists like Joseph Turner set off to explore Britain with their sketchbooks.
I wanted to follow in their footsteps, exploring our beautiful coastline by bike and painting the adventure as I went. To this end, Ordnance Survey provided a great range of maps to help with planning and choosing good cycle routes.
This journey was actually further and took longer than I expected – I set off from Paddington Station down the Thames and headed clockwise around the coast keeping the sea on my left.
4,500 miles later and pedalling for over 4 and half months I found myself back where I’d started
~ Timmy Mallett
Legend

Cycle Route

Paintings and Videos
Thanks to OS Jamie Heath & Mel Marochov for developing the web map.