Timmy Mallet's Art of the South Coast | DataViz

"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

Animation and music created by Guy Heathcote, Product Development Consultant at OS.Additional audio: Pixabay.

Many thanks to Timmy Mallett for supplying the GPX route data, voice over, and art.