Our story
Some places stay with us.
The city where we grew up. The island we return to every summer. The neighbourhood where we met someone important.
Picturing Places turns those connections into map prints—framed or unframed—so somewhere meaningful can become part of your everyday surroundings.
From software to something you can hold.
I have spent decades working with software. I still love the ingenuity of it: the care behind a useful tool, the engineering that makes something complicated feel simple. Picturing Places comes from that world.
Over time, I have also become more drawn to things whose construction I can feel. Paper, wood, a well-made control. Objects with weight and texture, which catch the light differently as you move around them. I wanted to make something that could become part of a room, rather than another thing to open on a screen.
A map brings those interests together. The print is a physical object, and the place it represents is real too. A familiar street or the curve of a bay can mean something quite specific to the person who chooses it, without needing to explain that meaning to everyone else.
A place holds more than a location.
A familiar walk. A long lunch. The way home from the beach.
What looks like a coastline or a network of streets can hold years of memories. A map traces the outlines. You know the stories within them.
I started Picturing Places to give those connections a form you can keep. Through carefully chosen colours, lines, and compositions, each map becomes a personal piece for your wall—or a gift for someone who shares the memory.
Software makes this possible, from choosing the view to preparing the image for print. But the result is meant to leave the screen: paper you can look at closely, an optional frame or wooden hanger, a place on your wall. Something considered, personal and comfortable to live with. Over time, it may move between rooms or homes and acquire a history of its own.
