The Road Untravelled | The Art of Sherin Aminossehe

The Road Untravelled began life as Sherin Aminossehe’s personal response to the geographical constraints of the COVID-19 lockdown – a drawing a day, providing relief from the daily routine of work and home-schooling. However, on a friend’s advice it became a much broader enterprise, as Sherin began to fulfil commissions in return for a charitable donation to SSAFA for people unable to travel, her art offering them an imaginative escape to the locations they longed for. This exquisite collection ranges from the United States to Nepal via London, Italy, Iran and many destinations besides. Alongside the drawings feature the personal responses of some of the people who commissioned them. Together they provide a moving record of the importance of place in our most precious memories and a testament to the consoling power of art in the most challenging times.

Sherin Aminossehe said, It was my mother who taught me to draw, showed me all the techniques I know, encouraged me to use different materials and encouraged me to do art. I am therefore doing a drawing a day, a sponsored draw if you like, of all the favourite places we want to go to but are unable to do so whilst we are in lockdown, travelling the world with my pen, one sketch at a time.

Sherin, who works at the Ministry of Defence, decided to raise money for SSAFA through her isolation art said,

I chose SSAFA because of the wide range of support that they give and the fact that they are not a single-issue charity - that was important to me.

Sherin has raised more than £27,000 for SSAFA since she began drawing during the COVID-19 lockdown. 

• ISBN 978-1-78551-397-8
• Paperback
• Dimensions: 24.6 x 18.9cm, 112 pages

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