lost adventures
Magic Beyond The Map
Lost Adventures is where I explore the quiet magic hidden in plain sight—the wonder that waits between one place and the next, one story and another. It’s a space for curiosity, myth, art, and soulful discovery; a reminder that even the smallest detour can become an act of enchantment.
I’m Lyn Thurman—artist, author, and oracle-maker. My creative work lives at the crossroads of art and spirit. Through digital collage, I build imagined worlds from fragments of the past: a stray photograph, a forgotten portrait, a scrap of ephemera. Layer by layer, these images become maps of myth and memory—visual stories that explore what it means to journey inward while moving through the world.
At the heart of Lost Adventures is StoryWandering—a personal practice of discovering the soul of place through imagination, myth, and quiet attention. It’s a way of walking through the world guided by intuition rather than destination, listening for the whispers of story carried in landscapes, ruins, and forgotten corners. StoryWandering blurs the line between travel, art and transformation, inviting us to see each journey—whether physical or inward—as a living map of meaning.
The name Lost Adventures came about quite literally—I have an uncanny knack for getting lost, even with a map or GPS in hand. Over time, I realised that those detours and wrong turns often led somewhere far more interesting than where I’d intended to go. They became metaphors for the creative and spiritual paths I walk: unplanned, meandering, but always rich with meaning.
In 2025, after letting my passport lapse for five years (because really, what was the point of renewing it in 2020?), I finally renewed it—and I’ve been making the most of it ever since. That sense of rediscovery, of venturing back into the wider world with fresh eyes, infuses everything I create here.
Lost Adventures brings these threads together: art, travel, myth, and the subtle conversations between the seen and unseen. It’s for those who sense there’s more to life than what’s neatly drawn on the map—the daydreamers, seekers, and wanderers who know that the path to magic often begins where certainty ends.
If you’d like to keep travelling together, Notes from Beyond the Edge is where I write from the shifting borders of Lost Adventures. It’s part field journal, part creative log—a gathering of myths, musings, and works unfolding. It’s a way to stay close to the stories that haven’t yet found their final form.
Welcome, fellow traveller. Let’s see what we can find beyond the map.