After finishing his BA in Illustration at Cambridge School of Art (2017) Joshua Pell spent 5 years working on bars, finding occasional freelance work within the creative community of Leeds. He went on to study the Drawing Year at the Royal Drawing School (2023), after which he abandoned freelance illustration altogether to focus on personal work. His practice is based in traditional forms of drawing, but finds experimental routes through a mixture of materials like watercolour, oil colour and printmaking. Cataloguing the passable vernacular wherever he finds himself is his Code enacting it through the therapeutic search for locations on-foot, perhaps in an attempt to relive the excitement of navigating uncanny urban landscapes as a child. His focus on the language of mundane architecture and infrastructure in these environments has developed into imagined compositions. These pictures are best described as semi-autobiographical diary-entries that reflect on his life-long affinity with wandering.