Journaling With Nature: Recent Episodes
Bethan Burton
Journaling With Nature is for those who want to turn curiosity into wonder, a pencil sketch into a rabbit hole of discovery, a moment of stillness into a life full of joy.
Victoria is a Chilean artist based in Germany. Her botanical art balances scientific accuracy with creative freedom, exploring themes of social masking, neurodivergence, female identity, and belonging.
Listen to hear more about:
- Victoria’s early connection with nature and creativity.
- Moving from Chile to Germany and how art helped her connect with her new environment.
- Studying botanical art by correspondence.
- The joys and challenges of working with live plants.
- The botanical artists that have influenced and inspired Victoria.
- The differences between traditional and contemporary botanical art.
- Working from pressed herbarium specimens.
- Victoria’s relationship with ‘perfectionism’.
- The tools used by botanical artists.
- Colour mixing ‘recipes’.
- Victoria’s body of work exploring identity and the experience of social masking.
- The reason why Victoria feels an affinity with orchids.
- Victoria’s online course Botanical Watercolors: Learn to Paint Realistic Flowers.
You can find Victoria on her website (www.victoria-beyer.com) and on Instagram @victoria_botanical and @victoria.beyer.artist.
Learn from Victoria in her online course Botanical Watercolors: Learn to Paint Realistic Flowers.
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International Nature Journaling Week is coming up again very soon (1-7th June). In this episode we will explore the themes and ways that you can get involved in the celebration.
Our overarching theme this year is Conversations With Nature. We will explore ways that we can listen, learn from, and communicate with the natural world. We will have a daily theme to focus our journaling. These daily themes will be:
- Describing the indescribable
- Playing with words
- Exploring nature through poetry
- Storytelling with nature
- Listening attentively
- Sensing the world around us
- Creating a vision for the future
The website for International Nature Journaling Week is www.naturejournalingweek.com. The best way to stay in touch and not miss anything is by signing up to the newsletter.
On the INJW website there is a Journal Share page where you can share your work with others and leave encouragement and support for other people’s pages.
You can connect with others from all around the world on the INJW Facebook group. To share your pages on Instagram or Facebook, use the hashtag #naturejournalingweek.com.
If you would like to see my daily pages during the week and participate in giveaways, follow @journalingwithnature on Instagram.
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Maria is an expeditionary artist whose work has led her to some of the planet’s most wild and remote locations. Collaborating with scientific research teams, Maria uses art as a tool for communication. She is the founder of Art Toolkit, a company that specialises in portable materials for adventurous artists.
Listen to hear more about:
- The links between Maria’s early life and her career as an expeditionary artist.
- The fellowship that allowed Maria to travel the world and make art for a year.
- The similarities and differences between the Arctic and the Antarctic landscapes.
- The process of communication between scientific research team and artist.
- Landscape sketching.
- Active observation.
- Using art to communicate the science of climate change.
- The development of Art Toolkit.
- Micro-adventures in our everyday lives.
You can find Maria’s art and adventures at www.expeditionaryart.com. To learn more about Art Toolkit, visit their website and Instagram @arttoolkit.
Art Toolkit have a wonderful collection of demonstrations and tutorials over on YouTube.
Maria and the Art Toolkit team have generously created a discount code for listeners (valid until July 31st, 2025). The code is: NATUREJOURNALING15. You can apply the code at checkout to get 15% off your purchase.
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Seeds are magical little packages of potential! Each seed holds all the genetic information needed to grow into a plant that may feed us, provide shade, or offer food and habitat for wildlife. The diversity of seeds is both fascinating and valuable, making them the perfect subject for our nature journals.
I would love to hear about the seeds that you have been exploring in your nature journal. You can leave a comment on the Journaling With Nature website.
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Jennifer is a gardener, author and podcast host. By examining the intersection between gardens and human culture, her work helps to expand how we think about gardens, positioning gardeners as essential knowledge-holders and change-makers of our time.
Listen to hear more about:
- Jennifer’s first garden.
- The lessons a garden can teach us.
- Expanding the definition of gardening and reflecting on what gardening means to us.
- Our biological and cultural ties to flowers.
- The cultivated spaces that make Jennifer feel at home.
- The feeling of loving a garden.
- Jennifer’s book What We Sow: On the Personal, Ecological and Cultural Significance of Seeds.
- Gardens as places of hope during uncertain times.
- Jennifer’s garden journaling practice.
To learn more about Jennifer, you can explore the Cultivating Place website or find her on Instagram @cultivating_place.
Jennifer has written three books that you can order from your local, independent bookstore:
- The Earth in Her Hands: 75 Extraordinary Women Working in the World of Plants.
- Under Western Skies: Visionary Gardens from the Rocky Mountains to the Pacific Coast.
- What We Sow: On the Personal, Ecological and Cultural Significance of Seeds.
Jennifer will be a guest speaker at this 2025 Wild Wonder Nature Journaling Conference. You can buy your ticket to the conference here.
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We are often very good at encouraging others and noticing things to admire in the artwork of those around us, but it can be more challenging to offer those same gentle words to ourselves. This week, we will practice finding things to love about our own creations and speaking to ourselves with kindness and generosity.
I noticed this when I was sketching with my son. It was easy to find things to love about the work of the other person, but difficult to say these things about our own work. Do you have the same feeling? I would love to know how you respond to this and how you offer gentle encouragement to yourself.
On a recent trip to Sydney, I attended a book event by Amie McNee who is an amazing champion of artists. You can find her book here: We Need Your Art.
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James is an artist and wilderness guide from New York. Driven by a desire to make the outdoors accessible to more people, James created Hike and Draw - a platform where he combines art and education to help people connect with nature in a meaningful way.
Listen to hear more about:
- The rhythm of the seasons in New York.
- How the Scouting movement taught James to thrive in a range of outdoor environments.
- How James developed Hike and Draw.
- How nature connection can combat loneliness.
- The early natural historians that inspire James’ work.
- The difference between and expedition and an adventure and how this relates to nature journaling.
- How a broken leg led James to nature journaling!
- How to be guided by ethics when interacting with nature.
- Nature journaling as a tool for conducting scientific research.
- Finding your niche.
- Socialising your research.
- The power of mountains.
You can learn more about James and his work on his website www.hikeanddraw.nyc and on Instagram @james_sisti.
Get a hardcopy of the book using this link: A Field Guide to Nature Journaling.
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Learning some facts can be a powerful tool for understanding and connecting with animals. Following on from our conversation with Lee Putman from Facts and Fine Liners, let’s go on our own fact-finding adventure and see what we can learn about our chosen animal species.
I would love to hear your experience with researching facts about an animal. Did you feel more connected with the species? You can leave a comment on the Journaling With Nature website.
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Lee is an artist and educator based in London. Weaving together fine art and storytelling, his compelling videos open us to the fascinating wonders of the animal kingdom.
Listen to hear more about:
- Lee’s creative history, including the development of his street dance and fine art.
- Incorporating movement into art practice.
- Creating art that has a positive outlook.
- Animal activism through art.
- Storytelling and its influence on Lee’s life and work.
- Telling the story of animals that might not be typically charismatic.
- Sketching animals from life.
- Lee’s upcoming online drawing session for the Saturday Sketch Club at the Royal Academy.
- How interactions with other artists can help orientate you within your ‘artistic ecosystem’.
- Communication through the language of art.
Find Lee on social media over on Instagram, YouTube and Tiktok.
You can find Lee’s beautiful fine art prints in the online store on his website www.factsandfineliners.co.uk.
Be sure to sign up to be part of Lee’s online session for the Saturday Sketch Club for the Royal Academy: Saturday Sketch Club - drawing animals.
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Contemplating Earth as part of a vast solar system, galaxy, and universe offers a powerful perspective. Let's explore ways to use nature journaling to connect with our place in space.
In the episode I chat about the book Orbital by Samantha Harvey. Listen to episode 175 of this podcast where I talk with Kate Skinner about many things including the book Orbital.
You can revisit Roseann Hanson’s field trip to Mars here: Virtual Field Trip: Let’s Explore Mars!
I would love to hear your perspective on understanding our place in space through your nature journal. You can leave a comment on the Journaling With Nature website.
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Kirstie is a teacher and nature journaler from Alaska. Her career has led her through a wide range of teaching situations, always with a focus on respect for people and place.
Listen to hear more about:
- Kirstie’s career that has spanned a wide range of teaching situations.
- The natural environment in Alaska.
- The vegetable garden as a place of joy.
- The story of how Kirstie came to nature journaling.
- Collaborations within the Alaskan nature journaling community.
- Documenting the dawn chorus in your nature journal.
- The benefits and joys of garden journaling.
- The Global GeoArt Blitz
- The study of ethnobotany.
- The human connection with plants.
To learn more about Seward Nature Journaling and the work Kirstie is doing in her community visit: Seward Nature Journaling.
To find out about the Global GeoARTBlitz, visit Rosann Hanson’s website here.
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Extreme weather events are becoming more frequent and severe. Nature journaling offers a way to document these events while also capturing our personal experiences and responses.
Two nature journalers who document the effects of extreme weather are Miriam Morrill from @pyrosketchology and Robin Lee Carlson in her book The Cold Canyon Fire Journals.
If you are interested to learn how to make a cyanometer, you can watch my little tutorial here.
I would love to hear about your experience of nature journaling big weather events. Leave a comment below this post over on the Journaling With Nature website.
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Angela is a writer, scientist, and natural historian. Through her writing, she celebrates the power of the local—what can be discovered when we slow down, tune in, and notice the subtle wonders of the world around us.
Listen to hear more about:
- How the 2020 lockdowns started Angela’s writing project that would become her book Nature on the Doorstep: A Year of Letters.
- Angela’s writing process at home and while travelling.
- The natural history authors who inspire Angela.
- Learning the flora and fauna of a new country.
- Connecting with individual animals in your area.
- The circle of natural connections.
- The importance of appreciating the local.
- The art of strategic neglect in the garden.
- Angela’s new book Near the Forest, By the Lake: Discovering Nature Close to Home.
For more information about Angela and her work visit www.angelaedouglas.com.
Find out more about Angela’s book here: Nature on the Doorstep: A Year of Letters.
Preorder Angela’s new book here: Near the Forest, By the Lake: Discovering Nature Close to Home.
Authors that have influenced Angela’s natural history writing:
- Gilbert White - The Natural History and Antiquities of Selborne.
- Anna Comstock – The Handbook of Nature Study.
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Spirals are all around us in nature, and finding them can be a joyful challenge. This week, let’s go on a treasure hunt by tuning into the spirals in our nearby nature and capturing them on the pages of our nature journals.
I would love to hear about the spirals you found this week. You can leave a comment below this post on the Journaling With Nature website.
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Trina is a science teacher at a nature-based school, where she weaves together science and art through nature journaling. By guiding her students in an immersive learning experience, she helps them explore the world while creatively capturing their observations.
Listen to hear more about:
- Teaching science in a nature-based school.
- Modelling nature journaling habits by drawing alongside the students.
- Learning from the expertise of the community.
- Surveying stream biology during Biodiversity Day.
- Starting a nature journal club in your area.
- Simple art materials that you can use on-the-go.
- Adapting your nature journal classes to suit children of different ages.
- Inspiring nature writers.
Click the link to find out more about the North Central Nature Journal Collaborative.
You can find out about Trina’s nature adventures over on Instagram @treenswalton.
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Imagining ourselves in a landscape can be a calming and peaceful experience. What if we transformed these imagined landscapes into nature journal entries? These entries could serve as a source of calm when needed or even as the first step in bringing our envisioned landscapes to life.
If you try today's prompt, I would love to hear about your experience and what the activity brought you. You can leave a comment below this post on the Journaling With Nature website.
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This very special episode is a celebration of the life of Kate Skinner. Kate was passionate about human rights and social justice. She had a deep love of literature and the transformative power of human stories. Her warmth and love was felt by everyone in her life.
Listen to hear more about:
- The freedom of unstructured outdoor play in childhood.
- The values of social justice woven into Kate’s family life.
- Literature in the classroom and the ways Kate engaged her students in learning.
- The importance of landscape in literature and how it shapes characters and readers.
- How good writing can stretch past the limitations of our language.
- Finding lessons and meaning in literature.
- How reading develops empathy.
- Processing deep emotions through communication.
- Kate’s love of teaching.
- How curiosity helps us connect with life and with each other.
Here is a list of the books Kate refers to during the interview:
Alexis Wright – Carpentaria
Emily Brontë - Wuthering Heights
John Steinbeck - The Grapes of Wrath
Samantha Harvey - Orbital
Charlotte Wood - Stone Yard Devotional
Rebecca Solnit - Orwell’s Roses
George Eliot - Silas Marner
Elizabeth Strout – Olive Kitteridge
Azar Nafisi - Reading Lolita in Tehran
Charles Dickens – David Copperfield
Barbara Kingsolver - Demon Copperhead
Frances Hodgson Burnett - The Secret Garden
The celebration of Kate’s life that we talked about during our conversation was recorded. You can watch it here: Celebrate Kate.
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Symbiosis is a close biological relationship between two different organisms, where at least one benefits from their interaction. Symbiosis highlights the interconnectedness and interdependence of living organisms and we will explore the different types of symbiosis in today’s prompt episode.
I would love to hear all about your plans for your nature journal this year and any examples of symbiosis you have noticed in your nearby nature. You can leave a comment below this post on the Journaling With Nature website.
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Juliene is an artist and watercolour educator. Through her engaging classes and vibrant online community, Juliene inspires artists to build creative confidence and embrace the joy of painting.
Listen to hear more about:
- The winding career path that led Juliene to becoming a watercolour educator.
- The natural landscape in Montana.
- Learning to love watercolour as a medium.
- Pivoting from a product to a process orientation.
- Painting murals.
- The #ipaintedthat challenge.
- Co-creating with watercolour.
- Juliene's signature course The Colour Mixing Lab.
You can learn more about Juliene and her art at www.julienesinclair.com. Juliene is also on Instagram @juliene.sinclair and on YouTube @julienesinclair.
To sign up to Juliene’s signature course and get a 5% discount off the usual price, use this link: The Colour Mixing Lab.
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When the world feels like it is in a dark place and things appear out of control, focusing on what brings hope can sustain us. Hope not only offers solace but also motivation to make positive change. Our nature journals can become a place to cultivate hope. Let’s share hopeful ideas and resources this week.
Some hopeful resources that I love:
Jane Goodall Institute
Jane Goodall Hopecast
Doug Tallamy
Ross Gay
I would love you to share your experiences and ideas about nature journaling hope by leaving a comment on the Journaling With Nature website below this episode.
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Artist and bird enthusiast Ria Kotze explores her curiosity and passion for nature through creativity. Her story has taken her on adventures to many parts of the world, and now her biggest adventure of all is following her paintbrush wherever it leads.
Listen to hear more about:
- The species that sparked Ria’s birding passion.
- Finding her creative style and following the paintbrush.
- Keeping a perpetual journal and contributing to citizen science.
- Being a lifelong learner.
- The artists and educators who inspire Ria.
- Sharing nature journaling with young people.
- Ecologically responsible art materials.
- The ways that Ria’s art practice has changed and developed over time.
Learn more about Ria at www.bluefeatherart.com and connect on Instagram @followyouryarn.
Here is a list of inspiring creatives that Ria mentioned during our conversation:
Lara Call Gastinger
John Muir Laws
Roseann Hanson
Geninne Zlatkis
Sharon Field
Max Romy
Natalie Eslick
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Being in nature offers endless opportunities to be surprised and delighted by all the wonders that we find there. When you are outside, tune your awareness to those things that are new and different, to those surprising moments that make you gasp from joy and wonder.
I would love to hear about the moments that make you gasp with delight. Share your stories by leaving a comment under this episode on the Journaling With Nature website.
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Nics is a business and personal coach from Edinburgh, Scotland. She is training to be a forest bathing guide and approaches her work and nature connection practice with curiosity, an open heart, and a firm belief in the awesomeness of individuals.
Listen to hear more about:
- The ways that Edinburgh’s history and culture intertwine with nature.
- Life lessons learned from observing nature.
- Connecting with others in your community with authenticity and intention.
- Nature journaling as a mindfulness practice.
- The importance of play.
- Using different journals and how that can encourage creativity.
- Nature journaling while on holiday.
- The beauty of bees.
Learn more about Nics’ consulting work here: https://www.nxjconsulting.com/.
Connect with Nics on Instagram @nics610 and Facebook Nature CoNxtion.
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This month I am going to be using a prompt list to encourage myself to keep a regular garden journal again. This has been inspired by Inktober which is an art challenge where participants sketch something in ink, every day for the month of October. There is an official list, but I have created my own. I am calling this challenge Inktober in the Garden. Each prompt is just one word related to gardens and gardening and is aimed to get us thinking in different ways about the beauty of our cultivated space.
Here is the list:
- Pollinator; 2. Fruit; 3. Scented; 4. Germinate; 5. Wild; 6. Sun; 7. Growth; 8. Mulch; 9. Tendril; 10. Water; 11. Sow; 12. Flower; 13. Soil; 14. Shade; 15. Cultivated; 16. Climbing; 17. Root; 18. Invertebrate; 19. Companion; 20. Textured; 21. Supported; 22. Leaf; 23. Herb; 24. Seed; 25. Insect; 26. Weed; 27. Compost; 28. Tools; 29. Seedling; 30 Pod; 31. Harvest.
If you would like to join me, you can use each prompt or just dip into the ones that inspire you the most. I would love to see your pages! If you are on social media you can use the hashtag #inktoberinthegarden or you can email me your pages at bethan@journalingwithnature.com.
If you don’t have a garden, you can use the prompts to get inspired by your local park or green space.
I have created a blog post with this information. You can find it here: Inktober in the Garden.
I am also excited to share the news that I have opened my online store! You can find it over on the Journaling With Nature website.
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Ane is a multilingual translator living in Basque Country. Ane’s work explores the ways that nature and creativity can foster wellbeing.
Listen to hear more about:
- The similarities between language translation and painting.
- The reasons why Ane chooses to prioritise using the Basque language in her work and nature journal.
- The significance of colour for wellbeing.
- Ane’s ‘Paint Your Wellness’ sessions.
- How the combination of nature and creativity can help with anxiety.
- The benefits of quick sketching in nature.
- Painting as meditation.
- Finding wonder in nature.
- Keeping a travel sketchbook.
You can connect with Ane on Instagram @anegaral.art and on YouTube.
Click here to learn more about green sketching.
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Windows are there to connect us with the wider world. Look out your window and journal about what you see. Can you see trees, or the sky? Can you see human stories unfolding? Sketch what you see and describe it with words.
My favourite window-gazing journalers are Clare Walker Leslie and Brooke Morales. Brooke is teaching about painting skies at the upcoming Wild Wonder Nature Journaling Conference which is happening from September 18-22, 2024.
Let me know what you are seeing from your own window by leaving a comment under this episode on the Journaling With Nature website.
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Maja is a multi-creative Danish artist living in Sydney, Australia. Maja dedicated herself to filling a hand-made nature journal each month for a year and came to know nature in her adopted country more deeply through the process.
Listen to hear more about:
- Plant awareness disparity and how it affects our ability to connect with plants.
- The differences between nature in Australia and Denmark.
- Maja’s year-long nature journaling project.
- Finding balance in your nature journal practice.
- Creative constraints and how they can be freeing.
- Maja’s art challenge #shroomtember and how you can get involved.
- Incorporating sustainability into our art practice.
- Zines and how they connect people.
- The Sydney Nature Journal Club.
- Finding your way back to nature journaling after a break.
You can find Maja on Instagram and Behance and follow along with her art challenge #shroomtember.
If you are in the Sydney area and would like to connect with other nature journalers, you can find the Sydney Nature Journal Club on Meetup and on Instagram.
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Looking back at our old journals can show how our practice has developed and remind us of techniques we would like to use again. Sometimes we can even answer our own nature questions! For today’s prompt, we will revisit our past journal pages and see what they can teach us.
I would love to hear about your experience looking back at old journals. Leave a comment below this post over on the Journaling With Nature website.
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Using her experiences in the natural world as inspiration, Naomi creates detailed fine art with the aim of connecting people with wildlife. She is passionate about using art to help support wildlife conservation projects around the world.
Listen to hear more about:
- The beautiful landscapes and wildlife of Naomi’s nearby nature.
- The importance of the ocean for Naomi’s wellbeing and art practice.
- The steps involved in creating a realistic seascape.
- Naomi’s painting space and artistic process.
- The importance of colour.
- Capturing the life of an animal subject through the eyes.
- The relationship between time spent in nature and a motivation to protect wildlife.
- Ways that artists can use their art to make a difference in the world.
- Naomi’s experiences participating in the International Tall Ships Race.
- The role that sketchbooks play in Naomi’s art practice.
- How play can inform our work.
Find Naomi’s artwork on her website www.naomijenkinart.com and on Instagram @naomijenkinart. To find out more about the David Shepherd Wildlife Foundation click here.
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The traditional Japanese calendar divides the year into 72 microseasons, each representing a period of change in the natural world. Pay attention to the small changes that happen in your region and see if you can identify some microseasons of your own.
This week we are experimenting with an idea inspired by Mary Jo Hoffman, which is to explore the microseasons in our own part of the world. You can find the seasons that Mary Jo has identified for her own region in her book STILL: The Art of Noticing.
I would love to hear about the microseasons you identify in your own region. Leave a comment below this episode.
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Every day for over twelve years, Mary Jo has posted a photograph of nature on her blog STILL. More than just a daily creative project, STILL has offered deep insights and connection to place.
Listen to hear more about:
- A childhood spent exploring nature.
- How an aptitude for mathematics led Mary Jo into a career as an aerospace engineer.
- The beginnings of STILL blog and the initial parameters of the project.
- Fitting a one-a-day project into an already busy family life.
- Being in a state of ‘creative noticing’.
- Going deeper rather than wider in her exploration of nature.
- The 72 micro-seasons of Mary Jo’s bioregion.
- The importance of play.
- How engineering and mathematics influence her creative work.
- The family’s travels in France.
- The fusion of life and art.
- Falling in love with the landscape wherever you are.
Visit stillblog.net to explore Mary Jo’s incredible project. You can also connect with Mary Jo on Instagram @maryjohoffman. Find STILL: The Art of Noticing here.
Steve Hoffman’s memoir A Season For That: Lost and Found in the Other Southern France can be found here.
Keep in touch with Mary Jo’s work by signing up to the STILL newsletter here.
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Bringing play into our nature journaling practice is an invitation to lean towards joy and freedom and away from perfectionism and self-criticism. Start your journaling sessions with play – embrace all of your silly, wonky, imperfect, life-filled lines and have fun!
Over on the Journaling With Nature YouTube channel I have a playlist where you can follow along with different exercises to loosen up and play:
Creative Play for Nature Journalers
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Listen to hear more about:
- How Kaddi came to nature journaling.
- Kaddi’s ideal day in nature.
- How nature was a solace for Kaddi during a challenging time.
- The growing nature journaling community in Germany and other German speaking regions in Europe.
- The regular in-person and online nature journaling gatherings that are happening in Germany.
- The importance of giving supportive feedback.
- Starting a nature journal club in your area.
- Travelling nature journals.
- Nature journaling as meditation.
- Kaddi’s hopes and plans for nature journaling in the future.
Follow Kaddi on Instagram @kaddikaracho and on YouTube @NatureJournalette.
Some of the groups and workshops mentioned can be found here:
- Nature Journaling Deutschland group on Facebook
- German nature journal clubs map
- Weekly online sessions of Nature Journaling and Tea and Nature Journaling and Coffee can be found on the website of Verena Hillgärtner: Wieder Wilder Werden.
- Wild Wonder Educators Workshop
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Today’s prompt comes from a challenge created by last week’s guest, Sofia Gazarian. Sofia’s idea was to draw or paint the same bird each month for a year. Through this process you will be able to watch your own progress as you develop your skills of drawing birds. You can control the variables by using the same time limit for your sketch, as well as using the same reference photo, materials and paper size. Give it a go if it sounds like a fun challenge to you!
To find inspiration from Sofia’s One Year Bird page, visit her Instagram @printyourbird. If you post your own page on Instagram, use the hashtag #oneyearbird so Sofia can see your birds!
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Sofia has a passion for birdwatching. While cultivating a daily sketching habit, Sofia has learned that you can find birds and make amazing discoveries even in the heart of a big city.
Listen to hear more about:
- Making personal discoveries in nature.
- How Sofia went from selling vintage bird art to drawing and painting her own birds.
- The bird illustrators that inspire Sofia.
- How a birding challenge helped Sofia make many discoveries her local parks.
- Using a monocular for capturing bird photos on your phone.
- Tips for beginner birdwatchers.
- Keeping a bird journal.
- Drawing the same bird each month to track your artistic progress.
- The calming effect of drawing birds.
Illustrators who have inspired Sofia’s drawing:
John James Audubon
George Edwards
John and Elizabeth Gould
Ohara Koson
David Sibley
John Muir Laws
Danny Gregory
Felix Scheinberger
Apps that Sofia uses while birdwatching:
Merlin Bird ID
BirdNET
eBird
To follow along with Sofia’s bird drawing journey find her on Instagram @printyourbird.
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Today we are exploring the corners of our environment, the neglected places that we do not normally visit. There are nature stories here too. Take some time to nature journal the things that you notice in a place that might have been overlooked for a while.
While I was playing with my son in the garden, I came across a corner that we never usually visit. It made me think that there are neglected parts of our environment that also have stories to tell. This week I will be nature journaling in a corner of my space, and I invite you to do the same. If you do not have a garden, seek out a corner of your local park, or even a corner of your home. What do you find there? What nature stories are playing out in these neglected spaces?
I would love to see what you find in your local environment. Leave a comment below this post on the Journaling With Nature website.
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Jarod is a poet, author and podcaster who writes intimately about the appreciation of nature, the interconnectedness of all things, and the complex experience of being human.
Listen to hear more about:
- Jarod’s first experiences writing poetry in nature.
- The wildlife Jarod encounters living between a park and a cemetery.
- The interconnections between all living and non-living parts of our world.
- Remembering that we are part of nature.
- The Cryptonaturalist Podcast and finding deeper love for nature through fictional worlds.
- The joy of living in a world of unanswered questions.
- Finding balance between destructive and constructive mindsets.
- Jarod’s new book Something in the Woods Loves You.
- Depression and how nature can be a balm during these times.
- The value of delight and whimsy.
Find out more about Jarod and his work on his website https://www.jarodkanderson.com/ or connect on Instagram @cryptonaturalist.
You can pre-order a copy of Something in the Woods Loves You here.
Listen to Jarod’s podcast here: The Cryptonaturalist.
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International Nature Journaling Week is coming up again soon (1-7th June) and in this episode I chat about all the ways that you can get involved during the week.
Our overarching theme this year is ‘Celebrating the Cycles of Life’ and our daily themes will explore the biological processes that organisms might go through in their lifecycles. The daily themes are:
- Germination and emergence
- Growth and development
- Metamorphosis and transformation
- Reproduction and replication
- Fruiting and dispersal
- Decay and decomposition
- Renewal and regeneration
The website for International Nature Journaling Week is: www.naturejournalingweek.com. The best way to stay in touch with what’s coming up during the week is to subscribe to the newsletter.
You can connect with others from all around the world on the INJW Facebook page. If you would like to see my daily pages during the week and participate in giveaways, follow @journalingwithnature on Instagram.
If you would like to share a short video of yourself talking about one of the prompts, email me at bethan@journalingwithnature.com and I will share how you can do this.
If you are interested to see Susanne Swing Thompson’s new book A Closer Look: The Neighborhood, visit her website here.
We look forward to sharing with you during International Nature Journaling Week 2024!
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Through her work, painter and printmaker Suzy Sharpe explores the ways that humans and nature are interconnected and how humans make meaning from this connection through creative expression.
Listen to hear more about:
- Studying fine art and illustration while raising a family.
- Finding the balance between highlighting environmental issues and celebrating nature.
- The natural environment in rural Cornwall.
- Experiencing history through the landscape.
- The places in nature that inspire the feeling of awe, for Suzy.
- How spending time with children can reignite our experience of awe.
- Nature connection and how it weaves itself into our poetry and folk tales.
- The art and nature writing that have been influential for Suzy as a creative.
- Collaborating with charities.
- Botanical monoprinting.
To learn more about Suzy’s work visit her website: https://www.impressionsofnature.co.uk/. You can also connect on Instagram @ impressionsofnatureprints and on YouTube.
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Free writing is a technique where we write continuously for a period of time, without censorship or judgment. It can help us connect with our natural surroundings as well as our inner landscape, and can bring clarity, insight and a sense of calm.
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Anastasiia is a watercolour artist, creative mentor, and digital nomad, sharing her travel sketchbook and adventures. Through her courses and online community, Anastasiia helps other artists follow their own creative paths.
Listen to hear more about:
- The classical art training Anastasiia received at art school in Russia.
- The personal project that started Anastasiia on the path of botanical and nature illustration.
- How Anastasiia launched her freelance career and became a digital nomad.
- The challenges of forming a daily sketching habit.
- What it is like sketching in public.
- How words of encouragement at the right time can significantly influence our life path.
- How working on a personal project can attract professional work that you love!
- Cultivating a travel mindset at home
- Anastasiia’s favourite travel sketching tools.
- Travel sketching tips for how to paint on-the-go.
- Anastasiia’s course Make Art with Confidence.
To find out more about Anastasiia and her work visit https://www.anastasiiamorozova.com/ or find her on Instagram @natura.illustrata.
If you would like to learn more about her signature course you can visit Make Art With Confidence, or for other courses visit her profile on Skillshare.
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Creating a collection of objects on a nature journal page can help us notice differences and similarities between things within a particular category. It can also be a wonderful way to capture memories of our time spent in nature.
I invite you to start a collection of objects or observations and put them down together on one nature journal page. What do you notice about the differences and similarities between the objects? How do you feel when you look at your collection?
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Leandra is an artist, environmental scientist, and educator. Through her work she invites others to connect with the joy and wonder that can be found in the outdoors.
Listen to hear more about:
- The experience of monitoring whooping crane data and how that unlocked Leandra’s love of birdwatching.
- Personal reflections and lessons from nature.
- Making observations and asking questions in nature.
- Leandra’s favourite art media and expressing creativity in different styles.
- Leandra’s adventure climbing Mt Kilimanjaro and how the team supported each other on the mountain.
- The important bird that was Leandra’s travel companion during the climb.
- Leandra’s creative collaborations with Outdoor Afro.
- The book Nature Swagger: Stories and Visions of Black Joy in the Outdoors by Rue Mapp.
To find out more about Leandra and her work visit https://www.seasonallee.com/ or connect on Instagram @_leandraaaa_.
Watch a Write Out workshop that Leandra did with Outdoor Afro on YouTube.
Read more about the hammock that Leandra designed and watch a video about her creative process on the ENO website.
Check out Leandra’s Keen footwear collaboration – Sandals for Swimmerships.
Purchase the socks Leandra designed here.
Find Phil Henderson on Instagram @phil_henderson.
Learn more about Outdoor Afro online and on Instagram @outdoorafro.
Learn more about Rue Mapp, author of Nature Swagger: Stories and Visions of Black Joy in the Outdoors.
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Let’s go on a colour hunt! Take a small handful of colour pencils and head outside. See if you can find these colours around you in nature. When you find something that matches one of the colours you chose, sketch that object in your journal using the pencil.
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Lily is an educator specialising in the field of biomimicry. Through curiosity and attention, joy and humour, Lily guides others to see the wonders of nature around us.
Listen to hear more about:
- What biomimicry is and how it can be used to find solutions to our biggest design questions.
- How biomimicry can bring hope to the current narrative about nature.
- What it is like to go on a hike with a nature nerd.
- How journals can connect people through the generations.
- The Colorado landscapes where Lily spends time.
- Being a nature ‘generalist’.
- The feeling of having more questions than answers.
- Biomimicry in place-based education.
- How nature journaling can help us explore biomimicry.
Find out more about Lily and her work, visit https://www.learningfromnature.earth/. You can also find Lily on Instagram @lilylearnsfromnature.
To listen to Lily’s podcast Learning From Nature, click here.
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Nature journaling can be a way to take a break from our busy lives, calm the nervous system, and facilitate healing for the body and mind. Take some time to nature journal for the sole purpose of allowing yourself to rest and heal.
I would love to hear about your experiences with nature journaling as a way to facilitate healing. You can leave a comment below this episode on the Journaling With Nature website.
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After a career in the corporate world, Jennifer underwent a significant life transformation by transitioning to a career as a botanical artist and educator. This shift aligned with her values around nature, creativity, and connection.
Listen to hear more about:
- The New Zealand landscape and what it means to Jennifer.
- How Jennifer made a shift from a corporate career to art and teaching.
- What Jennifer enjoys most about teaching art and nature journaling.
- The similarities and differences between botanical art and nature journaling.
- The pitfall of perfectionism.
- Nature journaling in a conference setting.
- Nature journaling for self-care.
- Selling nature art at markets.
To see Jennifer’s work you can visit her website https://jenniferduval-smith.com/ and connect on Instagram @jenniferduvalsmithart.
Two artists that Jennifer mentioned as being influential on our journey were Sandra Morris and Leslie Alexander.
The books that Jennifer mentioned during the conversation were:
- Your Brain on Art: How the Arts Transform Us by Susan Magsamen and Ivy Ross.
- Find Your Unicorn Space: Reclaim Your Creative Life in a Too-Busy World by Eve Rodsky
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Keeping track of the weather can help us be more aware of, and connected with, our surroundings. Let’s create a daily weather log for one week (or longer), noting down variables relevant to our area, like precipitation, temperature, humidity, and wind speed.
What do you notice about the weather in your area at this time of year? Was the weather consistent through the week or did you see lots of variation? Share your pages on social media using the hashtag #journalingwithnature or leave a comment under this post on the Journaling With Nature website. I would love to hear about your weather experiences.
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After spending 30 years in France, artist Desmond Bovey returned to New Zealand and the landscape of his childhood. With attention and curiosity, Desmond used sketching nature as a way to truly come home.
Listen to hear more about:
- The travel adventures that eventually led Desmond to spend 30 years in France.
- Desmond’s homecoming back to New Zealand and the landscape that became his anchor.
- The moment that nature gave Desmond an invitation, and the sketch that started the book!
- Curiosity in nature and cultivating a deeper awareness.
- Invasive species and their impact on the landscape.
- The colours Desmond used to illustrate the park.
- How observing colour can deeply connect us with the landscape.
- Nature writing and the process of putting observations into language.
- The geological history of the park and how that shapes the life there.
- Finding moments of calm wonder in nature.
To find out more about Desmond’s book visit: https://www.pottonandburton.co.nz/
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Our pets are a little piece of nature inside our home, and they make wonderful subjects for a nature journal page. You can sketch them while they are sleeping, playing, eating, or having a snuggle.
I would love to hear stories about your pets and see your pet sketches. You can leave a message below this post on the Journaling With Nature website, tag me on social media or use the hashtag #journalingwithnature and I will see your post.
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Jenni is an artist from Samford, Queensland. She enjoys exploring the architecture of nature by playing with shapes and forms in her cyanotypes and acrylic paintings.
Listen to hear more about:
- The various mediums that Jenni has explored in her art.
- The Samford & Surrounds Arts Trail & Open Studios.
- Cyanotype as a medium for capturing impressions of nature.
- How two artists can depict a similar subject in very different ways.
- The process of building a body of work for an exhibition.
- What nature looks like here in Samford Valley, Queensland.
- Jenni’s growth and change as an artist.
- Jenni’s creative process.
- How the Samford Arts Trail helps Jenni set creative goals.
To find out more about the Samford & Surrounds Arts Trail & Open Studio you can visit Creative Samford.
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As the year comes to an end, let’s spend some time finishing up all of those half-finished creative projects, making space for new ideas and new projects to flow in 2024.
I would love to hear about the projects you would like to finish this year and the new ones you have planned for next year. You can leave a comment below this episode over on the Journaling With Nature website.
Have a beautiful holiday period! See you next year!
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Sarah is an illustrator and geologist living in Wales, UK. Through her many creative projects, Sarah uses art as a medium for storytelling, vividly capturing the unique character of people, places and nature around her.
Listen to hear more about:
- Sarah’s career progression from geologist to freelance artist.
- The many projects that Sarah has been involved with which aim to make positive change in the world.
- How to turn a client’s vision into artwork on the page.
- How Sarah supports the charity Curlew Action with her artwork.
- Sarah’s printmaking adventures and how she aims to work in the most eco-friendly way.
- Experiments in digital collage using photoshop.
- Being a creative generalist vs specialist.
- Nature journaling as a form of flow.
- The 100 Days Project and what Sarah learned through nature journaling 100 plants.
To learn more about Sarah and her work visit https://www.sarahhannis.com/. You can also find Sarah on Instagram: @sarahhannisillustration.
Sarah mentioned a couple of accounts on Instagram offering inspirational sessions for those interested in drawing people. You can access these accounts here:
Chloe Briggs @drawingisfree_org.
Kirsty Lockhart @pencils4tea.
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Colours change throughout the year and sometimes we notice that colours in nature come to represent a particular season. What are the colours that you notice right now that represent this time of year where you live? How could you capture these colours in your nature journal?
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Kate is a Brisbane-based garden consultant, author and edible weeds expert. She teaches a style of gardening that works in harmony with nature, creating fertile, flourishing spaces that are a haven for wildlife.
Listen to hear more about:
- The children’s book that was significant in shaping Kate’s idea of the perfect garden.
- The importance of creating diversity in the garden.
- Weeds and what they can tell us about our soil.
- Ways that nature journaling can help you as a gardener.
- Keeping a garden journal and deciding what to put on your page.
- The importance of soil for creating healthy plants.
- Using maps to observe changes in the garden.
- Edible weeds, their uses and benefits.
- How nature journaling can help us learn plant identification.
Find out more about Kate on her website: www.katewall.com.au. You can also see more from Kate on Instagram @katewallgardening.
You can take Kate’s online course here: Get Started Gardening.
Kate and her garden were featured in a segment on Gardening Australia and you can watch that video here: Blooming Shade.
The children’s book that inspired Kate so much was called Lemonade Serenade.
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Sketching landscapes in your nature journal can help you understand an ecosystem, as well as create your own sense of place and belonging. Get to know your landscape by exploring it on the pages of your nature journal using both words and pictures.
I created a YouTube video of myself responding to this prompt and discovering my own nearby landscapes. You can watch that video here: Find Yourself in the Landscape.
This prompt was inspired by my conversation with Marley Peifer and his Skillshare class about landscapes. You can find Marley’s class here - Dynamic Outdoor Painting: How to Paint Watercolor Landscapes on the Go.
I would love to hear about your own experience with adding landscapes to your journal. You can leave a comment below this post on the Journaling With Nature website.
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In this conversation, Marley talks about some deep questions that have been arising for him recently, on ways to move towards an embodied relationship with nature.
Listen to hear more about:
- How Marley came to be recording our interview from a cloud forest in Ecuador.
- The big questions that have been arising for Marley about the viability of being a full-time nature journal educator.
- Marley’s advice for other educators.
- How Marley integrates reflection on philosophical thought into his practice.
- Questions about the purpose of nature journaling and how to move forward in a more meaningful way.
- The need to embody our nature connection rather than being passive observers.
- The role of play and how it overlaps with creativity.
- Marley’s Skillshare class and the importance of landscapes for connecting with nature.
Marley’s Skillshare class can be found using this link - Dynamic Outdoor Painting: How to Paint Watercolor Landscapes on the Go.
For more information about Marley and his work visit: https://marleypeifer.com/.
Marley has hundreds of videos on his YouTube channel: The Nature Journal Show.
You can also find Marley on Instagram @marleypeifer.
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In this episode I reflect on the beauty that can be found in the process of decay. I invite you to look for examples of change, aging, decomposition, and decay in nature around you. This process is essential and beautiful. How could you capture this in your journal?
I created a video over on YouTube to show how I sketched these curling, drying mulberry leaves. Head over to YouTube to watch it and please consider subscribing to the channel for more videos like this. You can also read about finding beauty in decay on the Journaling With Nature blog.
What examples of decay can you see in your nearby nature?
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Kelly explores her love of nature through many different creative outlets, including nature journaling, photography, and embroidery. Kelly uses creativity as a way to understand and connect with the landscapes of her local area.
Listen to hear more about:
- Kelly’s childhood experiences of the ocean and the coast.
- The power of making connections with animals.
- How being vulnerable can lead to important connections between people.
- How the pandemic reconnected Kelly with art and nature.
- The landscapes close to Kelly’s home.
- Tracking the seasons in your nature journal.
- Practicing drawing at home so that we can be faster and more accurate in the field.
- Actively resisting perfectionist tendencies and the need to ‘produce’ something.
- Kelly’s creative practice and favourite art tools.
You can connect with Kelly and her work on Instagram @painted_trails_art.
If you are interested in Richard Louv’s book that was mentioned on the podcast, you can find it here: Our Wild Calling: How connecting with animals can transform our lives – and save theirs.
In our conversation we referred to a previous conversation I had with artist Sarah Byfield. You can listen to that episode here: Episode 51 – Nature as an expression of love.
Kelly mentioned a book that is a favourite in the nature journaling circles. It is called Braiding Sweetgrass by Robin Wall Kimmerer.
Kelly talked about her perpetual nature journal which is a method of journaling invented by Lara Gastinger. You can learn more here: Perpetual Nature Journaling.
I referred to a book by Danny Gregory called Shut Your Monkey, which you can find on Danny’s website.
We talked about creating a loose style and I mentioned Tim Pond as one wonderful example of an artist who does this well. Find out more about Tim’s books and classes here.
Kelly mentioned an amazing book called the Cold Canyon Fire Journals by artist Robin Lee Carlson. You can find out more on Robin’s website.
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In this episode I reflect on the ways that nature supported me through the loss of my father. Have you experienced something similar in your own life? Have there been times when you have turned to nature for comfort through grief or loss?
If you would like to share your story, you can send me an email (bethan@journalingwithnature.com) or you can leave a message on the Journaling With Nature website below this post. I would be touched to hear from you about this special topic.
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Sometimes we go outside with the intention to journal about a certain subject, and then nature shares a different story that needs to be told. When you go outside, be open to following the stories that unfold around you and capturing them in your journal.
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Elizabeth is a freelance marine biologist and science communicator. Through her funny and joyful style, she helps others connect with the wonders of the ocean.
Listen to hear more about:
- Elizabeth’s adventures since we last spoke on the podcast.
- Going freelance as a science communicator.
- The power of using entertainment to educate or share a message.
- Elizabeth’s experiences presenting on children’s television.
- The power of video and how Elizabeth got started with her YouTube channel.
- The challenge of public speaking.
- Marine biology stand-up comedy.
- Finding freedom in nature journaling.
- Elizabeth’s arty livestreams.
Find out about Elizabeth and Marine Mumbles here: https://www.marinemumbles.com. You can also find Elizabeth on YouTube, Instagram and Twitter.
You can also listen to the previous conversation I had with Elizabeth on the podcast: Nature Journaling on the Rocky Shore.
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Adding a title to your journal page can help tell a compelling story. Play around with hand lettering this week and see if you can use different fonts, styles and sizes of lettering to express yourself on the page.
If you would like to learn a little about using hand lettering you can watch Tim Pond’s workshop: Fill Your Journal With Hand Drawn Lettering.
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Meredith is an artist from Newcastle, Australia. She uses a sewing machine to represent natural subjects through a unique form of sculptural embroidery. This technique combines her background in both natural history illustration and textiles.
Listen to hear more about:
- The happy accident that changed Meredith’s university major and, subsequently, changed her life.
- The process of creating sculptural embroidery.
- The importance of shadow in the display of Meredith’s pieces.
- Taking a sewing machine into life drawing classes.
- Natural history illustration at university level.
- How field work and nature journaling help Meredith in her embroidery practice.
- How the landscape informs Meredith’s work.
- How Meredith blends colours in her pieces.
- The 100 Embroideries project.
- The importance of sketchbooks.
- Juggling a creative career with motherhood.
- The book ‘Create Naturally’ by Marcia Young.
To learn more about Meredith, her work and her online courses visit https://meredithwoolnough.com.au. You can also connect with her on Instagram and Facebook.
The book that features Meredith and I is called ‘Create Naturally: Go Ouside and Rediscover Nature with 15 Artists’ by Marcia Young. You can find out more about it here: https://createnaturally.com.
The online course through University of Newcastle can be found here: Drawing Nature, Science and Culture - Natural History Illustration.
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One of the richest and most rewarding parts of International Nature Journaling Week was the sense of community and connection with others from across the world. In this episode I talk about the next steps we can take to maintain the momentum in our journaling practice as well as stay connected with this world-wide community.
- To learn more about how we can keep up the momentum we gathered during International Nature Journaling Week and stay connected with this international community of nature journalers, visit the Next Steps page on the INJW website.
- You can learn more about the work of the Wild Wonder Foundation here, as well as get a video pass for the Nature Journal Educators Workshop. To download the Your Quick Start Guide to Nature Journaling zine, click here.
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David is a biologist and writer whose work invites others to contemplate the network of relationships between all life on earth.
Listen to hear more about:
- David’s childhood experience of the rich aromas of the French market.
- The dynamic relationship between curiosity and attention.
- The importance of conversations about the ‘voices of the living earth’.
- Sonic diversity in nature.
- The paradox of living with both beauty and brokenness at the same time.
- The interconnectedness of all life on earth.
- David’s method of connecting with a familiar patch of ground.
- Books and authors that have influenced and inspired David.
Find out more about David and his work at https://dghaskell.com. You can also follow him on Instagram, Twitter and Facebook.
David’s list of books and authors:
Rachel Carson
E. O Wilson
Annie Dillard - Pilgrim at Tinker Creek
David Abram – The Spell of the Sensuous
Sumana Roy - How I Became a Tree
Irene Solà - When I Sing, Mountains Dance
Kathleen Jamie
Amitav Ghosh - The Nutmeg's Curse: Parables for a Planet in Crisis
Charles Foster - Being a Beast: Adventures Across the Species Divide
Gina Rae La Cerva - Feasting Wild: In Search of the Last Untamed Food
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In today’s episode I explain all about what is coming up for International Nature Journaling Week (1-7th June) 2023.
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Hannah is a nature guide and community educator from South Australia. She is passionate about native plants and uses nature journaling as one tool for helping others see beauty and wonder in the natural world.
Listen to hear more about:
- How Hannah came to conservation land management.
- What Hannah loves about Australian native plants.
- Growing native plants from seed.
- Wattle and Wonder and the different ways Hannah connects people with plants.
- Nature journaling as a tool for learning.
- Seasons in the Australian landscape.
- Connecting children and families with nature.
- Creating havens for wildlife through habitat gardening.
To find out more about Hannah and her work you can visit https://www.wattleandwonder.com. You can also find Wattle and Wonder on Instagram.
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Our prompt this week is: Journal with a Friend.
Nature journaling with a friend is a joyful experience and can even deepen your understanding of the world around you as you unpack nature mysteries together. This week, invite someone to spend time journaling with you and enjoy the benefits of this connection.
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Just a quick announcement to let you know that there will not be a podcast today. I am preparing for International Nature Journaling Week. We will be back on track next week with a prompt episode.
Jamie is a parent educator from Malaysia. She connects with the natural world through her journal and through poetry. Jamie enjoys spending family time nature journaling with her children in the natural spaces near her home.
Listen to hear more about:
- The historical influences that shaped the place where Jamie spent her youth.
- The challenges of nature journaling as a family in the tropics.
- The ways that motherhood ignites Jamie’s creativity.
- How Jamie used The Nature Journal Connection, a video series by John Muir Laws, to structure her family nature journal time.
- The ways that Jamie’s journaling has changed over time.
- The idea of going deep with a subject, or relationship.
- The importance of expressing herself in poetry.
- Overcoming challenges and barriers to nature journaling.
Connect with Jamie on YouTube and Instagram. To join Nature Journaling Malaysia click here.
John Muir Laws created a series of short videos covering many nature journaling topics. You can watch the whole video series here: The Nature Journal Connect.
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Our prompt this week is: Become an apprentice.
Find someone who you admire, creatively, and make it a goal to study and replicate what it is you appreciate about their work. Copying is a great way to learn. Remember to always acknowledge that it is a copy if you post your work online.
This prompt was inspired by artist Alisa Singh, who taught herself to draw like Michelangelo. You can see her drawings on Instagram @jellyfish_and_stone.
The artist who I will be learning from is called Konstantin Dvornikov and you can see their work on Instagram @dvornikov.konstantin. I also plan to study and learn from artists Tim Pond. You can find Tim on Instagram @pond.timothy.
I would love to know who you are planning to learn from. Please leave a comment below this episode at https://www.journalingwithnature.com/podcasts/episode-121-become-an-apprentice, or use the hashtag #journalingwithnature on social media.
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Karen always had an inner voice that whispered to her about creativity and nature. When she was able to listen to these whispers, she opened a whole new world of art and nature journaling that has become an essential part of her life.
Listen to hear more about:
- The small moments in Karen’s childhood that gave an insight into things that would become important to her future self.
- Karen’s ‘hybrid’ style of journaling.
- Nature journal as a place for exploring and processing feelings.
- Nature journaling as a Highly Sensitive Person (HSP).
- Covid lockdown and the changes Karen noticed in her nearby nature.
- Gratitude and appreciation and their connection with journaling.
- Preserving special memories through travel journaling.
- The joy of sketching with others.
Karen wrote a blog post for International Nature Journaling Week. You can read her article here: How listening to my inner voice led me to my nature journaling journey.
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Our prompt this week is: Try something new
Try tackling a subject in your nature journal that you have avoided until now, something that stretches you a little out of your comfort zone. Or play with a new medium that you have not used before and have always wanted to try.
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Kathryn is an illustrator and nature journaler from County Durham, England. She fills her journal pages with vibrant and playful depictions of the stories she sees in nature and in life.
Listen to hear more about:
- The landscape in County Durham and the changes Kathryn has seen over the years.
- Experimenting with different art techniques.
- Learning about and drawing invertebrates.
- The solace and joy Kathryn finds in journaling.
- The concept of ‘drawn walks’.
- Including people on your journal page.
- Creative projects collaborating with others.
- Teaching nature journaling in the community.
- The benefits and drawbacks of art challenges.
You can find out more about Kathryn on her website, and on Instagram @flatcapsandfrappuccinos.
Read the blog post Kathryn wrote for International Nature Journaling Week: ‘Drawn walks’ and nature journaling.
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Our prompt this week is: Create some ‘nature spots’.
Create some 'nature spots' in response to the colours you see in your nearby nature. Tune your eyes to the colours around you. Look closely at a colour that catches your attention, then see if you can create a little spot on your nature journal page to represent what you see
To listen to my conversation with Lisa Spangler, click here. To find out everything you need to know about creating ‘nature spots’, visit Lisa’s blog.
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Lisa is a watercolour artist with a passion for nature. She is on a mission to share the feelings of joyand wonder that she gets when painting outdoors. One way she does this is by connecting with the colours of the landscape and creating 'nature spots' in her journal.
Listen to hear more about:
- The landscapes that have been important in Lisa’s life.
- Making friends with plants and animals through nature journaling.
- Why the plant sideoats is important to Lisa.
- The challenges of painting in the desert.
- How recovering from an injury was part of Lisa’s development as an artist.
- The practice of creating ‘nature spots’ to connect with nature.
- Colour mixing and working with triads.
- Properties of different watercolour types and how to use these qualities to your advantage in your journal.
Find out more about Lisa on her website https://lisa.wumple.com. You can read all about the Nature Spot Challenge on Lisa’s blog. You can also find Lisa on Instagram @sideoats.
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Our prompt this week is: Make yourself comfy.
Think about ways that you can make yourself more comfortable while you are nature journaling. You might choose to bring a hat, sunscreen, bug spray or a camp chair along with you, as part of your essential nature journaling kit. Being comfortable will enhance your enjoyment of the experience.
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Valentina is an artist who creates illustrations as a way of communicating about nature, science and sustainability. She is passionate about nature protection and hopes that her visual work will help make a positive change in the world.
Listen to hear more about:
- A wonderful moment of connection with a fox that Valentina had as a child.
- How her life and career led her to Germany.
- Valentina’s thesis topic on how signage can optimise wildlife conservation.
- The simple power of living by example to inspire and encourage others to live lightly on the earth.
- Finding beauty in the details.
- Learning about environmental topics through games.
- Sketchnoting as a tool for learning.
- The way hiking helps Valentina connect with nature.
You can find out more about Valentina and see her nature-inspired art on her website https://valentinaarros.myportfolio.com. You can also find her on Instagram and Facebook.
Head to Richard Louv’s website if you are interested in the book Our Wild Calling.
If you would like to see Valentina’s Radiolaria paintings, you can click here.
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There will be a small change to the format of the Journaling With Nature podcast, with episodes now alternating between interviews and nature journal prompts.
Making time to nature journal during a busy week can be a challenge. This week's prompt invites us to search for small pockets of time in our regular routine that could be dedicated to nature journaling. This could be as simple as finding just a few minutes in your day to go outside with your sketchbook. It is amazing what you can notice and journal in a small window of time!
Let's share our process and progress and learn from each other. You can share your pages on social media using the hashtag #journalingwithnature. I would love to see what you create!
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Mirja is an illustrator, nature guide and author from the Netherlands. In her nature journal, Mirja enjoys paying close attention to the rhythm of the seasons, tuning into her senses and noticing the subtle changes that can be observed in nature throughout the year.
Listen to hear more about:
- Mirja’s first nature journal.
- Nature journaling in the Netherlands.
- The interconnection between language and place.
- Mirja’s new book Natuur Journalen.
- Sketching outdoors in all seasons.
- How Mirja’s nature journal motivation has changed over the years.
- Connecting children with nature at an early age.
- How nature stories begin to unfold when we are curious and pay attention.
- Colours in nature and how this gives a sense of rhythm to the year.
- Sounds in relation to the time of the year.
Learn more about Mirja and her work on her website: Mirja Nature Art.
Connect with Mirja on Instagram @mirja_natureart and Facebook Mirja Nature Art.
If you would like to purchase Mirja’s book you can find it here: Natuur Journalen.
To see some of the pages that Mirja spoke about during our conversation, click here.
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Kelly is a Chicago-based bird artist and photographer. Using a variety of digital and analogue techniques, Kelly is creating a series of 100 bird paintings as a way of documenting the wide variety of birds in her local forest preserve.
Listen to hear more about:
- The people who encouraged Kelly’s love of birds in early life.
- The vacation that turned Kelly into a birder.
- Art and its importance in Kelly’s life.
- Kelly’s project ‘100 Birds of LaBagh Woods’.
- Birding and nature journaling in all seasons and all weather.
- How painting birds helps Kelly become connected with different species.
- The Chicago Nature Journaling Club.
- Using a wide range of art media.
- The trap of perfectionism.
- Art challenges and how they help Kelly maintain a regular art practice.
To find out more about Kelly and her work visit https://www.kellycballantyne.com. You can also find Kelly on Instagram @kcballantyne.
Kelly mentioned an inspiring nature journaling course by Liz Clayton Fuller. You can find it here: Nature Journaling and Field Sketching.
John Muir Law’s book was also a source of inspiration for Kelly. You can find it here: The Laws Guide to Nature Drawing and Journaling.
Kelly mentioned https://ebird.org as an important source of information when researching birds.
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Dion is an artist, naturalist and nature journal teacher. Her in-depth classes explore art and natural sciences in a diverse range of habitats. Dion collaborates with citizen science and community groups and believes in finding a middle ground in her nature journal where science and personal stories can co-exist.
Listen to hear more about:
- Dion’s connection with art and nature in early life.
- The biggest influences in the development of Dion’s nature journaling style and ethos.
- The importance of personal stories in our journals.
- Nature journaling classes and workshops.
- Collaboration with scientists and community groups.
- The experience of leading nature journaling groups at the Cooloola BioBlitz.
- How Dion engages people in the practice so that they will want to keep going with nature journaling.
- Dion’s hopes for the future of nature journaling.
Learn more about Dion and see her nature journal pages on Instagram @_dion.dior_ and Facebook.
Dion has appeared with Marley Peifer on The Nature Journal Show. You can watch these videos here:
Botanical Art and Nature Journaling
Climate Change and Nature Journaling
Dion wrote a blog post for International Nature Journaling Week which you can read here: Why Nature Journal?
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Melissa is a landscape contractor with a passion for desert plants and pollinators. Melissa is always alert to 'breadcrumbs from the universe'; signs showing the way, reminding her to pay attention to nature and teaching her how to be a better designer for pollinators and people.
Listen to hear more about:
- The influence of family on Melissa’s connection with nature.
- Sacred gardening and what the means for Melissa.
- How nature journaling feeds back into Melissa’s work as a Landscape Contractor.
- The intergenerational garden collaboration within Melissa’s home garden.
- The Mojave Desert landscape and the plants that inspire Melissa’s garden designs.
- Factors that Melissa considers when creating a desert-inspired garden design.
- The importance of pollinators.
- Henderson Bird Viewing Preserve and its significance for Melissa.
- How Melissa moves through feelings of perfectionism that can hold her back.
- Teaching her first nature journaling workshop.
You can find Melissa on Instagram @gardensbymelissa and on her website Earth Green Landscapes.
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Sarah moved from her home in Western Australia to the Irish countryside where she raised her family. After finding nature journaling and creative inspiration online, Sarah has started her own virtual community,Spark of Nature, as a way to engage with other like-minded nature lovers from around the world.
Listen to hear more about:
- The trip that started Sarah’s ‘grand adventure’ of beginning a new life for her family in Ireland.
- The beauty and diversity of nature in Sarah’s local area.
- Instagram accounts that have influenced Sarah’s nature journal journey.
- The way Sarah structures her nature journal.
- Ways to make nature journaling simple and do-able.
- Art challenges.
- Nature experiences as a family.
- Spark of Nature, Sarah’s new online community.
- The importance of books and reading in Sarah’s life
Some of Sarah’s favourite books on nature and nature journaling:
The Living Mountain by Nan Shepherd
Braiding Sweetgrass by Robin Wall Kimmerer
The Secrets of a Devon Wood by Jo Brown
The Country Diary of an Edwardian Lady by Edith Holden
Janet Marsh’s Nature Diary by Janet Marsh
The Undercliff by Elaine Franks
To join Sarah’s online community, Spark of Nature, click here.
Follow Sarah on Instagram @sarahlulucas.
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Having followed a winding professional path all the way around the world and back to his original dream of working in conservation, Mark knows the value of community and connection. He hopes to share the beauty of nature with others through his art and his work as a countryside ranger.
Listen to hear more about:
- The different iterations of Mark’s career that have led him to his current work in the conservation sector.
- Mark’s traineeship with the Sussex Wildlife Trust.
- Recording the nature experiences of his traineeship through a nature journal.
- Mark’s process for building the layers of his nature journal pages.
- The ways that Mark’s parents have inspired and influenced his love of nature and art.
- Nature journal as a learning aid.
- Including storytelling and folklore in a nature journal.
To find out more about Mark and his work visit www.markjnewton.com. You can also find him on social media using these links:
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You can read more about Mark’s ranger traineeship in this interview with the Sussex Wildlife Trust.
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Sarah has a deep connection with nature in her local area. As a lifelong learner and natural-born teacher, Sarah enjoys exchanging with others in her community and online, sharing knowledge, curiosity and enthusiasm for the natural world.
Listen to hear more about:
- Making creativity simple and accessible to everyone.
- The California Naturalist Program.
- Actively contributing to citizen science through iNaturalist.
- What it is to be a naturalist.
- The significance of horses in Sarah’s life and family history.
- Nature journaling alongside others who are not journaling.
- Sarah’s favourite paint colours and the colours of her landscape.
- Learning from other artists and developing a style.
- Accessing nature while managing chronic pain.
- The benefit of online presentations, workshops, and conferences.
Sarah mentioned that she finds community and connection with people online through The Nature Journal Club Facebook group.
The online nature journaling events that Sarah talked about were the Wild Wonder Nature Journaling Conference and International Nature Journaling Week.
In this video you can see Sarah Reid discussing regrowth after wildfire in the Trione-Annandel State Park.
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Deborah is a nature journaler from California, USA. In her work she taught ways to combine science and art in early childhood education. Now she aims to foster a connection with nature in her family and community through nature journaling.
Listen to hear more about:
- The importance of mentors.
- Combining science and art in early childhood education.
- Nature journaling as a tool for processing grief.
- The nature journaling community and the richness of shared experiences.
- Taking the role of the ‘novice’ as a way to encourage and support others in a group.
- Deborah’s favourite nature related non-fiction books.
- The buzz of making nature discoveries.
- Nature journaling with physical limitations.
- The different ways that Deborah hopes to engage her community in nature journaling.
- Nature journaling with young children.
Deborah mentioned Melinda Nakagawa from Spark in Nature as the teacher who opened the doors to nature journaling for her.
The Skyscapito Appreciation Society is the group that Deborah mentioned that meets to share ideas for painting and drawing skies in our journals
The Sound of a Wild Snail Eating by Elisabeth Tova Bailey is the book Deborah mentioned during our conversation about finding wonder in nature during illness.
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Sonja is a nature journaler from the Pacific Northwest, USA. Nature and art have been part of Sonja's life from since childhood. Nature journaling has helped her embrace a growth mindset and learn lessons about life and art.
Listen to hear more about:
- Falling in love with nature close to home.
- Perfectionism and how it can hold us back.
- Sonja’s favourite field sketching supplies.
- Combining nature journaling with other hobbies.
- Allowing nature to nourish our soul.
- Drawing inspiration from other artists.
- Tips for field sketching birds and other moving animals.
- Celebrating our innate creativity.
- The value of breaks in the creative process.
Read Sonja’s blog posts for International Nature Journaling Week: Confessions of a (Recovering) Neurotic Naturalist.
Follow their adventures over on Instagram @sawnch93.
Sonja was inspired by Marley Peifer’s video: Unlock Your Potential.
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Brooke is a designer, writer and photographer who uses her creative skills to tell engaging stories. Through her blog, Life Noticed, Brooke shares inspiration and encouragement on the themes of mindset, creative habits, nature and art.
Listen to hear more about:
- Brooke’s career as a creative designer and how she uses many different tools to tell her clients’ stories.
- The power of noticing nature around us.
- The brain/body connection.
- What it means to live an intentional life.
- Ways that Brooke stays consistent with her creative habits.
- Honouring a person, or species, by taking the time to draw them.
- Starting a YouTube channel as an introvert.
- The Wild Wonder Challenge and how it has stretched Brooke’s thinking.
Brooke shares thoughtful articles about mindset, and building creative habits, on her blog Life Noticed.
You can find out more about Brooke’s professional work on her website: www.goforbrooke.com.
To watch Brooke’s videos on mindset, habits, nature and art, subscribe to her YouTube channel.
For nature journal pages as well as beautiful nature photography and inspiration, find Brooke on Instagram @brookenoticed.
To learn about the Wild Wonder Foundation, you can click here.
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Craig is an artist and scientific illustrator from Tasmania. After a career with positions ranging from feeding Tasmanian devils in a wildlife park, illustrating spider anatomy, and identifying fossil specimens of Australian megafauna, Craig has found his niche painting birds on vintage book pages.
Listen to hear more about:
- What nature looks like where Craig lives in Launceston, Tasmania.
- The many and varied jobs that Craig has had during his career.
- Encounters with Tasmanian wildlife.
- How Craig started working in the field of scientific illustration, and specifically, using a microscope to document the minute details of spider anatomy.
- Art as solace during difficult times.
- Building community online.
- Fining a niche.
- Painting birds on vintage book pages.
- Why bird art resonates with so many people.
To learn more about Craig, and to see his detailed bird art on vintage book pages, visit https://www.cswilliamsart.com. You can also find his work on Instagram @cswilliamsart.
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Robin is a biologist, natural science illustrator and author with a special interest in studying ecological change over time. Her new book,The Cold Canyon Fire Journals, tells the story of a changing landscape after fire.
Listen to hear more about:
- Robin’s relationship with Cold Canyon, past and present.
- How her project has shaped the way she thinks about fire.
- The incredible natural history stories that Robin uncovered through her research.
- The role colour plays in the landscape after fire.
- How Robin’s nature journal pages helped her craft the narrative for the book.
- The co-existence of mind and heart in science.
Discover more about Robin on her website and Instagram page. You can also find a copy of Robin’s book, The Cold Canyon Fire Journals, on her website.
If you would like to purchase a video pass to watch classes from the Wild Wonder Nature Journaling Conference, you can do so here.
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We are celebrating 100 episodes of the Journaling With Nature podcast! For this milestone episode Beth Kelley Gillogly turns the microphone around and interviews Bethan about her history, nature journaling with her son and the story behind starting the podcast.
Listen to hear more about:
- Pivotal nature experiences in my early life.
- How I came to nature journaling.
- My experience and love of colour.
- How my nature journaling has changed over time.
- The joy of journaling close to home.
- Lessons I’ve learned from nature journaling with my child.
- Growth vs fixed mindset.
- The story behind the Journaling With Nature podcast.
If you would like to support the podcast through Patreon and access the bonus recording you can click this link: Journaling With Nature Podcast on Patreon.
To learn more about the Wild Wonder Nature Journaling Conference and register click this link: Wild Wonder 2022.
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Crazy-life-stuff meant that I was unable to finish the 100th episode but it will be out next week!
Sandy is an artist, instructor and writer exploring the world through her sketchbook. Sandy uses field sketching to learn about her environment, coming to know the landscape and its inhabitants more deeply through creativity and mindful observation.
Listen to hear more about:
- Sandy’s first memories of nature and art.
- The process of ‘bushwhacking’ a path to find her professional career.
- Sandy’s difficulty in owning the label of “artist” and the beautiful story of how she came to see herself as she truly is.
- Exploring anxieties through a sketchbook.
- Sandy’s favourite art tools.
- How Sandy brings ‘purposeful play’ into her personal practice and her classes.
- Field Sketching: A Year of Mindfulness.
- The importance of birds in Sandy’s work and the summer-long ‘spark experience’ that got her hooked on birding.
Find out more about Sandy and her work at https://www.sandymcdermott.com. You can also find Sandy on Instagram and Facebook.
To learn more about Sandy’s year-long course, Field Sketching: A Year of Mindfulness, you can email her at sandy@sandymcdermott.com or put your name on the priority list here.
The Hand Book Paper Co. Travelogue watercolor journal that Sandy talked about can be found here.
You can find the book Living On the Wind by Scott Weidensaul here.
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Agnes is an artist, science communicator and creator ofWe Are Stardust. Her artwork inspires a connection with the more-than-human world and her guided online adventures help others tune into nature by exploring both the outer and inner landscapes.
Listen to hear more about:
- The winding professional path that has led Agnes to her freelance career.
- How Agnes started We Are Stardust.
- How nature journaling has deepened her relationship with birds.
- Listening to the body and the heart when they remind us to take time in nature.
- Ways to create a full and nourished life.
- Rewild Your Soul: A year of seasonal adventures.
- Opening ourselves to joy and also to vulnerability when we love nature.
- Creating boundaries and habits to protect and prioritise our time in nature.
Explore Agnes’ website https://www.wearestardust.uk and Instagram page @wearestardust. You can learn more about the program Rewild Your Soul: A year of seasonal adventures by clicking this link: https://www.wearestardust.uk/pages/adventures
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Alma is a naturalist, artist, and educator. She creates a joyful and connected life through her love of nature walking, art making and nature journaling. With a simple field kit and an observant eye, Alma is able to sketch on-the-go wherever she finds herself.
Listen to hear more about:
- Alma’s early nature experiences growing up on the island of Oahu.
- Discovering nature journaling through the books of Clare Walker Leslie.
- The experiences of her students when Alma brought the practice of nature journaling to her class.
- Alma’s simple kit for nature journaling on-the-go.
- Alma’s growth and development as an artist.
- The healing benefits of nature and nature journaling.
- Finding confidence and talking kindly to our inner critic.
- The emotional experience of being in nature.
- Moving through ecological grief into action.
- Beach Naturalist training through the Seattle Aquarium.
Find out about Alma on her website www.awildbraid.com.
Follow Alma’s creative adventures through A Wild Braid Nature Journal and sign up to receive Alma’s newsletter here.
You can find Alma on Instagram @alma.walks.in.nature.
Alma mentioned the names of several content creators who inspire her on Instagram. You can find their accounts here:
@browngirloutdoorworld
@hood__naturalist
@blackforager
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I'm taking a short break from the podcast and will be back on August 8th with new interviews! Thanks so much for being here. See you soon!
Ali Foxon, author and founder of the green sketching movement, returns to the podcast to speak about her new book: The Green Sketching Handbook. Ali gently guides others to connect with joy and creativity in the natural world.
Listen to hear more about:
- Green sketching and why Ali created this new genre of creativity in nature.
- The three guiding principles of green sketching.
- Why nature and creativity are such a beneficial combination.
- The process of writing her book during a pandemic.
- How Ali eases people through their fears about making art.
- How sketching in nature can create an embodied connection between you and natural world.
- How paying attention to colour can be a way of connecting with place.
- Some challenges that you might come across when building a sketching habit and how to overcome them.
- How gratitude can be an antidote to anxiety.
- The intertwining of joy, gratitude and love which underpins our connection with nature.
Learn more about Ali and her work at www.alifoxon.com.
Purchase a copy of The Green Sketching Handbook:
Australia (pre-order for 23rd July release)
International
German edition
United Kingdom
You can listen to our previous podcast conversation here: Episode 9 – Green sketching and the pursuit of joy.
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Everyone nature journals for different reasons. By taking time to consider what we value most we can begin to notice whether our journal pages reflect what is important to us.
Today’s podcast is a solo show discussing something that came up at Jean Mackay’s workshop during International Nature Journaling Week 2022. Jean’s workshop was called Values Added and prompted us to reflect on what we value and whether we are reflecting these values on our journal pages.
You can watch Jean Mackay’s workshop here: Values Added.
Please leave your thoughts on ideas on this topic under the episode post on the Journaling With Nature website here: What do you value?
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David is an author, adventurer, videographer, and nature guide. He takes ecological and scientific knowledge and weaves it into stories that captivate and connect others with nature. David sees language as a tool we can play with to learn more about the world around us.
Listen to hear more about:
- How David knew he wanted to be a naturalist since his early years.
- David’s book, Language Making Nature, and the process of inventing meaningful new words.
- Storytelling as a tool for communicating about nature.
- How new words can help us communicate about current and future ecological challenges.
- Creating words that extend beyond the limitations of our language in order to speak about things like the richness of colour or the complexity and subtlety of human emotions.
- The importance of a naturalist’s notebook.
- How we can sometimes be in nature without the need for words, names or labels.
Find out more about David and his work at https://lukasguides.com. You can learn about the book Language Making Nature at http://www.languagemakingnature.com.
David shares nature inspired photos and videos on Instagram, Facebook and Twitter. You can find David’s natural history videos and virtual nature walks on his YouTube channel.
We would love to hear your thoughts on the topics we discussed in this conversation. You can leave your comment below the podcast episode at: https://www.journalingwithnature.com/podcasts/episode-94-david-lukas.
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Marion is a teacher and environmental educator with a passion for fostering nature connection in others. She does this through a variety of sensory awareness and nature immersion activities and experiences.
Listen to hear more about:
- The ways that Marion’s parents fostered her love of nature in childhood.
- Eco-psychology and nature connection.
- Using all of our senses while paying attention to nature.
- The difference between connecting with nature through photography and art.
- Nature in the Netherlands as well as nature in Marion’s garden.
- The magic of making and using wild ink.
- The importance of ‘play’ in our nature journals.
- Pausing to notice the seasons throughout the year and the Season Sketchers challenge.
- Adding Haiku to a nature journal page.
- The joy of seasonal firsts.
Find out more about Marion on her website (https://www.connectingwithnature.nl) as well as on Instagram and Facebook.
If you’re interested in learning more about the Season Sketchers Challenge you can visit https://www.angelahennessy.co.uk/seasonsketchers.
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Clare Walker Leslie has brought the practice of nature journaling to the world through her many books and in-person workshops. She speaks about the people, places and things that she has encountered over the four decades since she started keeping a nature journal.
Listen to hear more about:
- The story of how Clare came to nature as an adult.
- Clare’s experience studying under her mentors in England, Scotland, and Sweden.
- Writing her first book Nature Drawing, A Tool for Learning in 1978.
- The tools Clare takes with her into the field.
- How nature can be a solace during difficult times.
- Using colour to understand and celebrate the changes in nature throughout the year.
- The concept of Daily Exceptional Images.
- The way Clare facilitates nature connection through her workshops.
Find out about Clare and all her inspirational books on her website http://clarewalkerleslie.com.
Watch the video of this interview on the International Nature Journaling Week website.
Two books that Clare mentioned were The Zen of Seeing by Frederick Franck and The Sound of a Wild Snail Eating by Elisabeth Tova Bailey.
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Henrietta is a natural history illustrator, ecologist, and founder of the Hunter Region Field Naturalists and Nature Journaling Club. Through her work, Henrietta shows how nature journaling can be used as a tool for conservation.
Listen to hear more about:
- Studying deep ecology at university.
- The differences between an ecologist’s field journal and a personal nature journal.
- Listening to the landscape.
- What nature looks like in the Hunter Region where Henrietta lives.
- Starting the Hunter Region Field Naturalists and Nature Journaling Club.
- Creating a nature journaling retreat.
- What Henrietta keeps in her journal kit.
- Creating a colour library in your nature journal.
- Nature journaling on holiday.
- The Art of Nature Journaling exhibition.
- Nature journaling for conservation.
Find out more about Henrietta on her website https://www.henriettamooney.com and on Instagram @henrietta_mooney.
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Kim is an artist, scientist and educator living in Western Australia. Through the pages of her nature journals and the videos on her YouTube channel, Kim aims to encourage others to keep a nature journal and connect with the wonders of our planet.
Listen to hear more about:
- How Kim came to nature journaling.
- Kim’s experience starting a YouTube channel.
- Why it is important for Kim to have a strong focus on the Australian natural environment.
- What nature looks like in Western Australia.
- Starting the Perth Nature Journal Club.
- What it is like nature journaling in front of the camera.
- The benefits of nature journaling for physical and mental health.
- The things that Kim takes with her on nature journaling adventures.
- Art challenges and why they help Kim commit to a daily art habit.
- Kim’s favourite aspect of nature journaling.
- Kim’s hopes and plans for the future of her YouTube channel and her nature journaling adventures.
Find out more about Kim on her website https://www.kims-njadventures.com and see her journal pages on Instagram.
Watch Kim’s videos on her YouTube channel: Kim’s Nature Journaling Adventures.
Kim mentioned the open online short course she took through the University of Newcastle. You can find more about this course here: Drawing Nature, Science and Culture: Natural History Illustration.
Kim talked about the John Muir Laws book that influenced her nature journaling. You can find this book here: Laws Guide to Nature Drawing and Journaling.
Click here to see the Venn diagram that Kim created showing nature journaling at the intersection of science, art and nature.
Purchase one of Kim’s Plein Airpril postcards in her Ko-fi shop.
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The theme for International Nature Journaling Week 2022 is Back to Basics. This theme has been chosen to remind us that nature journaling can be done close to home and with very simple materials. INJW will be 1-7th June and we will have a special theme for each day to focus our attention on one particular topic.
The daily themes will be:
- Appreciation
- Sharing
- Creativity
- Inspiration
- Confidence
- Care
- Celebration
Visit the website for International Nature Journaling Week to learn more.
Sign up to the INJW newsletter to receive news and updates in your inbox.
Visit the INJW Blog to read the stories of other nature journalers from around the world.
Be sure to explore the resources and workshops from previous years, which are still up on the INJW website.
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Alex Boon is a nature artist and writer from East Devon, UK. He creates regular nature journal vlogs and tutorials through his YouTube channel The Daily Nature Journal. Alex also shares about British nature, botanical ink making, and flower and leaf pressing and preservation.
Listen to hear more about:
- What nature looks like where Alex lives in East Devon, UK.
- How Alex’s workspace has changed since we last spoke on the podcast.
- Life as a ‘professional noticer of nature’.
- Alex’s new project The Daily Nature Journal.
- Learning to make and use natural botanical inks.
- Alex’s collaboration with Louise from Bohemian Raspberry Art in creating the Botanical Ink Challenge.
- Tracking the weather and mood to see how closely these two variables are correlated.
- Alex’s Patreon community and the extra content and benefits reserved for Patrons.
- How online nature journaling and YouTube can make nature accessible to more people.
- Alex’s plans for the future.
Find out more about Alex and his work on his website (alexboonart.com) and on Instagram (@alexboonart and @the_daily_nature_journal).
For regular videos on nature journaling and creating botanical ink, visit The Daily Nature Journal on YouTube.
To support Alex’s work consider joining his community on Patreon.
To learn more about Bohemian Raspberry Art, visit Louise on Instagram (@bohemianraspberryart).
You can listen to my previous interview with Alex by clicking this link: Epsiode 16: Alex Boon – ‘What else is here?’
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Molly is an educator and artist, born in the USA and living in the United Arab Emirates. Nature journaling has helped her feel connected with the landscape she now calls home. Through her workshops, and the Abu Dhabi Nature Journal Club, Molly is helping her community make nature connections too.
Listen to hear more about:
- How books about nature inspired Molly’s outdoor play as a child.
- Studying wildlife ecology at university.
- Moving from the USA to the United Arab Emirates.
- Finding beauty in this new, and very different, environment.
- How identity and culture are intimately tied to the rhythms of our landscape and the disorienting effect of moving away from these familiar rhythms.
- How the pace of development and change in the UAE has left some people feeling disconnected from nature, and the people who are working to document and celebrate the natural heritage of the country.
- How nature journaling has helped Molly feel at home in UAE.
- Creating the Abu Dhabi nature journal club.
- Nature journaling and stewardship.
Find out more about Molly and her work on her website: Leaves Me Curious.
You can also connect with Molly on Instagram @leavesmecurious.
Molly spoke about John Muir Laws and his video series that she uses in her home school. You can find them here: The Nature Journal Connection.
Information on starting a nature journal club can be found on the website of John Muir Laws.
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Corina is an ecologist and nature journaler from Ontario, Canada. For Corina, the nature journal can be a tool for exploring her garden, connecting with nature through mindfulness, and even a place to process ecological grief. Corina lets nature journaling be about the process, not the product.
Listen to hear more about:
- How Corina found the nature journaling community through the Wild Wonder Nature Journaling Conference.
- Thoughts on nature journaling and how a desire to make perfect art can complicate the process.
- Nature journaling during the Canadian winter.
- How nature journaling helps Corina be a better ecologist.
- The Breeding Bird Atlas and how nature journaling is helping Corina learn all the birds in her area.
- Mindfulness and nature journaling
- Nature journaling in the garden.
- What it means to be nature’s witness.
- Getting to know your ‘bird of the year’.
- How and why Corina’s journals have become loser and more messy over time.
Find more about Corina on her website Living Being Mindfulness and on Instagram @livingbeingmindfulness.
Read Corina’s blog post for International Nature Journaling Week: Nature Journaling When Nature is Wounded.
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There will not be an episode today but stay tuned because there are some very exciting things coming up!
Talweez spends much of her time travelling to new places, near and far, and creatively capturing her experiences through writing and art. Since coming to the practice of nature journaling, Talweez has found that her sketchbook allows her to see, learn, understand and appreciate even more about the world around her.
Listen to hear more about:
- Talweez’s early relationship with nature and creativity.
- How coming to nature journaling has helped Talweez look at nature with new eyes.
- Nature experiences on Christmas Island.
- Exploring culture and diversity through travel.
- Sketching landscapes.
- Talweez’s favourite materials for sketching outdoors and for painting a finished piece.
- Mindfulness and nature journaling.
Find out more about Talweez on her website: https://www.oftravelsandtrails.com.
See Talweez’s journal pages on Instagram @oftravelsandtrails.
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Eriko is a nature artist, illustrator, and conservationist. She is also the founder of Japan Nature Journal Club. From being an insect loving child, to growing into a wildlife artist and nature journal teacher, the natural world has always been an important part of Eriko's story.
Listen to hear more about:
- Eriko’s experience wild foraging as a child and the different plants she encountered.
- Eriko’s love for insects as a child.
- How nature taught her about the delicacy of life.
- How she came to wildlife art and then to nature journaling through the work of artists like Robert Bateman and Clare Walker Leslie.
- The beautiful story of when Eriko met Clare Walker Leslie for the first time at the Wild Wonder Nature Journaling Conference.
- Eriko’s experience of starting the Japan Nature Journal Club.
- Her involvement with the translation of The Law’s Guide to Nature Drawing and Journaling into Japanese.
- Stories and memories of sharing nature with her daughter.
Eriko’s website can be found here: https://njos-jp.teachable.com.
See Eriko’s nature journal pages on Instagram @erikokobayashi_naturejournal and Facebook.
To learn more about the Japan Nature Journal Club, click here.
Read Eriko’s blog post for International Nature Journaling Week: Why I Started a Nature Journal Club – Everything happens for a reason.
Eriko created a short video answering the question ‘What does nature journaling mean to you?’ You can watch the video here.
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Angela is a nature artist who has started a yearlong nature journal challenge called Season Sketchers. Using the Celtic Wheel of the Year as a guide, Angela invites us to go outside on significant dates during the year to observe nature and notice the changes that each new season brings.
Listen to hear more about:
- How Angela came to nature journaling.
- Pocket hitchhikers and what they are.
- The story behind the name Raspberry Thief.
- Creating natural tools and art materials.
- Making time for nature adventures as a family.
- How focusing on the seasons can connect us with the rhythm of the year.
- Looking for ‘first signs’ during the change of seasons.
- Season Sketchers and how you can get involved wherever you are in the world.
- The Raspberry Thief membership community.
Find out more about Angela on her websites https://www.angelahennessy.co.uk and https://raspberrythief.wordpress.com and on Instagram.
Prints of Angela’s work can be found in the Raspberry Thief Etsy Shop.
If you would like to go more deeply into connecting with the seasons using the Celtic Wheel of the Year you can join the Raspberry Thief community on Patreon.
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Alisa is an illustrator and artist with a particular love for marine invertebrates. She recently set herself the ambitious goal of creating a painting a day for 100 days. Having completed the project, Alisa is now interested in helping guide others to reach their own creative goals.
Listen to hear more about:
- The natural history illustration course from the University of Newcastle.
- The story behind the name Jellyfish and Stone.
- Wild and wonderful marine invertebrates.
- Alisa’s experience of visiting the Galapagos.
- Leading field sketching workshops with university students.
- Talking back to our inner critic.
- Intuitive painting.
- The accountability group Alisa has started to support each other in reaching creative goals.
- Alisa’s 100 Paintings Project.
Find out more about Alisa on her website: https://jellyfishandstone.com/.
Connect with Alisa on Instagram @jellyfish_and_stone.
See all of the 100 paintings from Alisa’s 100 Paintings Project here.
If you are interested to learn more about Drawing Nature, Science and Culture: Natural History Illustration the short course from the University of Newcastle you can click here.
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Kuniko is a nature journaler living in Tokyo. Nature journaling has allowed Kuniko to let go of comparisons, regrets and anxieties, and find peace in the present moment. The practice has also opened Kuniko's eyes to the special natural places around her in Tokyo.
Listen to hear more about:
- How Kuniko came to nature journaling.
- Finding nature in the city.
- Kuniko’s favourite nature journaling materials.
- Why nature journaling is important.
- Kuniko’s nature inspired YouTube videos.
Find out more about Kuniko on her website: https://note.com/sanpo_to_nikki/.
You can see Kuniko’s nature journal pages on Instagram @kumonko0813 and on YouTube 自然を描こう!チャンネル.
You can read Kuniko’s blog post for International Nature Journaling Week: My place in the world. She also created a heartfelt video for INJW answering the question “What does nature journaling mean to you?”.
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Amy is an educator who uses art, storytelling and video to communicate about science. Simplifying and communicating complex ideas is what Amy does best. In her workshop ‘Doodling Diagrams’ she guided participants through the process of translating the movements of animals into simple sketches.
Listen to hear more about:
- Amy’s backyard nature experiences in childhood.
- Amy’s story of being raised in a creationist household and then becoming a science educator.
- The different ways that Amy has combined art and science in her professional life.
- How Amy came to nature journaling and found the nature journal community.
- Doodling diagrams and how it can help us explore the world.
- How nature journaling has been helping Amy see her childhood landscape with new eyes.
Find out more about Amy on her website and blog. You can also see Amy’s wonderful journal pages on Instagram.
If you’d like to watch Amy’s workshop Doodling Diagrams, you can find it on YouTube here.
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Rosalie is an artist and nature illustrator from West Virginia. Through her work, Rosalie aims to show the intricate beauty of the natural world and encourage environmental stewardship. Rosalie teaches nature art online, as a Top Teacher on Skillshare, and has recently published her first book Watercolor in Nature.
Listen to hear more about:
- Rosalie’s personal connection with nature and how it is deepening every year.
- The creative influences in Rosalie’s early life.
- Rosalie’s career in illustration and how she has developed as an artist.
- The process Rosalie uses to create an art piece.
- Teaching on Skillshare and creating online classes.
- Sensitivity and how it influences Rosalie’s life and work.
- Watercolor in Nature, Rosalie’s new book.
- Rosalie’s exciting new project and where her path will lead next.
Find out more about Rosalie by visiting her website https://www.rosaliehaizlett.com.
You can purchase Rosalie’s book, Watercolor in Nature, here.
Rosalie posts her illustration work and progress updates on Instagram and Facebook.
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Alissa is a watercolour pencil artist, urban sketcher & librarian. She has a habit of sketching every day as a way of documenting the moments of her life. She has filled more than a hundred journals since beginning her daily practice and believes that 'anything is sketchable'.
Listen to hear more about:
- Alissa’s habit of sketching something in her journal every day.
- Ideas on the distinction between sketching and drawing.
- How Alissa came to her artistic style.
- Her favourite art tools.
- Switching sketchbooks from landscape to portrait format and how that affects composition.
- Urban sketching and the experience of attending international symposiums.
- Finding nature in parks and gardens within the city.
- Sketching outdoors and interacting with curious onlookers.
- Watercolour pencils and how Alissa uses them.
Find out more about Alissa and her work on her website alissaduke.com and her blog. Cards and postcards of Alissa’s work can be found in her Etsy shop.
See images of Alissa’s journal pages on Instagram and Flickr.
If you’d like to learn about the pencils Alissa carries with her every day, you can read a blog post about it here.
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Eric has had a lifelong fascination with birds, especially the movement of birds across continents during migration events. One way that he has been able to observe these movements is by recording the nocturnal sounds of migrating birds as they pass over his home in New Hampshire.
Listen to hear more about:
- Eric’s early nature experiences in Ireland and how they shaped his future.
- Nightsongs - the video about Eric’s project of recording nocturnal bird migration.
- The broad-winged hawk and how they captured Eric’s imagination.
- The incredible ways that Eric connected with the migration route of these birds.
- Ways that birds connect people across continents.
- Thoughts on conservation and how we can protect birds.
Be sure to watch the video Nightsongs, which features Eric and his recording of the nocturnal migration as birds fly over his home in New Hampshire. Nightsongs was co-created with saltproject.org.
Learn more about Eric through his website http://ericmasterson.com.
Eric is the author of a book, Birdwatching in New Hampshire, which you can learn about here.
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Hannah is an artist with a focus on the native birds of New Zealand. She uses fine-tip black pens to create detailed drawings which capture the life and beauty of these unique birds. Part of her work involves visiting remote, predator-free islands and bird sanctuaries, and behind all of her art is a message of conservation.
Listen to hear more about:
- The important role that Hannah’s family played in instilling a love of nature.
- Hannah’s journey from working in the fashion industry to becoming a full-time wildlife artist.
- The story of the huia and why they convey an important conservation message.
- Predator-free islands and bird sanctuaries.
- Zealandia and their work with kākā conservation.
- Wingspan National Bird of Prey Centre and the story of Whisper the ruru.
- Hannah’s creative process and the steps involved in creating her detailed art pieces.
- The nature that Hannah sees around her in the South Island of New Zealand.
- Creating a ‘time capsule’ for the people of the future.
To learn more about her work and watch the video 'A Lost Harmony', visit Hannah's website: www.hannahshandart.com.
Connect with Hannah on Facebook and Instagram, and visit this page to purchase one of her art pieces.
To learn more about kākā conservation visit the website of the Zealandia Ecosanctuary in Wellington.
Visit the website of Wingspan National Bird of Prey Centre.
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Gargi sees nature journaling as a tool to tap into an infinite loop of curiosity about the natural world. As a data analyst, she finds crossovers between her profession and the process of nature journaling. Gargi also finds journaling with others to be a wonderful source of inspiration and ideas.
Listen to hear more about:
- The beautiful story of how Gargi came to nature journaling and found the nature journaling community.
- How Gargi’s nature journaling has evolved over time.
- Moving past the pressure of comparison.
- A nature journal adventure to Tanzania and how Gargi learned to quickly capture her moving subjects.
- The ‘infinite loop of curiosity’ and what that means to Gargi.
- The ghost mantis Mithun and how she influenced Gargi and Akshay’s nature journaling.
- The joy and power of journaling with others and learning from each other’s pages.
- Comics as a nature journal tool.
- Gargi’s experience of nature journal burn-out and how she has found renewed inspiration and enthusiasm for the practice.
Follow Gargi on Instagram @inkuisitive.being for journal pages and inspiration.
Watch Gargi on The Nature Journal Show talking about her journaling process.
You can read more about the ghost mantis, Mithun, and the nature journal pages she inspired here.
Gargi and Akshay also did a video on creating an event comic strip in your nature journal.
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Karen is a nature enthusiast who uses creativity as a way to connect with the natural world. For Karen, nature journaling is a tool for both relaxation and learning. She is a lifelong learner who lets her curiosity guide her towards new discoveries in both nature and art.
Listen to hear more about:
- How our senses can connect us to memories of our time spent in nature.
- The wildlife pathway behind Karen’s home and the myriad visitors that pass by at different times of the year.
- The story behind the title of Karen’s blog I am Chasing Butterflies.
- Karen’s thoughts on nature journaling for relaxation.
- Fostering creativity by creating an accessible and inspiring creative space and making use of ‘pockets of time’.
- Connecting with community through nature and art.
- Natural discoveries Karen has been documenting lately.
- Karen’s hopes for connecting others with nature journaling in the future.
Find out more about Karen and her creative projects on her website https://iamchasingbutterflies.wordpress.com.
Connect with Karen on Instagram @iamchasingbutterflies.
Watch the video that Karen created for International Nature Journaling Week where she shares what nature journaling means to her: What does nature journaling mean to you?
To watch the video of Karen’s wildlife pathway and all her animal visitors, click here: Wildlife of Sammamish.
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As a wildlife artist, Vitor creates under the nameThe Headless Sketcher. With a lively and unique style, Vitor tells visual stories using line, colour and movement. Written descriptions of the life and behaviour of animals form an integral part of each composition, unifying other visual elements and guiding the eye across the page.
Listen to hear more about:
- The freedom and pleasure Vitor finds in wildlife illustration.
- The power and intimacy of using writing as an element on the page.
- How getting to know each subject through the research and creative process, helps Vitor fall in love with each new animal he paints.
- Vitor’s art process and how he layers elements on the page to create a final piece.
- Storytelling and the construction of a narrative within a painting.
- Thoughtfully using movement to tell a story or capture a moment of action.
- The reason why Vitor creates under the name The Headless Sketcher.
- How Vitor visually recreates significant memories of animal encounters for others, through his art commissions.
See Vitor’s amazing work on Instagram @theheadlessketcher. If you’re not on Instagram you can also see the fox painting we spoke about during the episode on the podcast page here.
To contact Vitor to talk about commissioning an art piece you can email him directly at this address: theheadlessketcher@gmail.com.
You can learn more about The Headless Sketcher on YouTube on The Nature Journal Show.
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Kim is a teaching artist, visual interpreter and wilderness guide. Along with her partner Bjorn Olson, Kim has explored remote parts of the Alaskan wilderness by fatbike, packraft and sea kayak, through all types of weather and in every season. Kim keeps a detailed nature journal to document her adventures.
Listen to hear more about:
- The Alaskan nature that Kim calls home.
- The equipment Kim and Bjorn use on their adventures.
- Relationship lessons learned from the intensity of exploring under extreme conditions.
- How Kim found nature journaling and has incorporated it into her life as her primary artistic and professional practice.
- Kim’s relationship with her body and what she has learned about it through her wilderness trips.
- Alaska through the seasons.
- The virtual fieldtrip that Kim led during the Wild Wonder Nature Journaling Conference.
- Nature journaling at different scales.
You can find more about Kim and her work on her website: https://www.kimsnaturedrawings.com.
Kim and Bjorn’s adventures have been extensively covered in the media. Read articles and watch videos about their trips on this page: https://www.kimsnaturedrawings.com/artist-bio.
Follow Kim on Instagram and Facebook.
Watch Kim interviewed by Marley Peifer on The Nature Journal Show.
Find out more about the photography and videography of Bjorn Olson here.
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For naturalist, writer and photographer, Kelly Brenner noticing details is a way of life. With the deep curiosity of a naturalist, Kelly has discovered some of the incredible natural diversity around her and documented this in her bookNature Obscura: A city's hidden natural world.
Listen to hear more about:
- The story behind the title of Kelly’s book Nature Obscura.
- The diversity of habitats that can be found in Seattle and the wildlife that makes its home there.
- The types of invertebrates found in cities.
- Kelly’s natural history tools (microscopes, hand lens and a simple flashlight).
- The magic world of tardigrades and slime moulds.
- The way that nature adapts, both behaviourally and biologically, to the urban environment.
- Ideas for increasing biodiversity in cities.
- How you can start to become a backyard naturalist yourself, wherever you live.
To find out more about Kelly and her work, visit her website: http://www.metrofieldguide.com. You can also find Kelly on Twitter and Instagram.
If you would like to support Kelly’s work, you can do so via Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/kellybrenner
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Tim is an artist from Alabama who has a strong connection with the history and stories held within the landscape around him. Through art, Tim pays respect to the landscape and the man-made structures within it, honouring the past and preserving this on canvas for the future. Last time I spoke with Tim on the podcast, half of the interview was lost through a technical fault. In this episode we revisit our conversation, talking about Tim’s current work and his dreams and plans for his creative future.
Listen to hear more about:
- The history of the Joe Farm and how it is thriving.
- How art can preserve history.
- The process Tim followed when writing his Artist’s Statement.
- The attention and care Tim gives to packaging and sending his original artwork.
- Tim’s experience teaching nature art and nature journaling online.
- Handmade nature journals.
- Tim’s hopes to take an art workshop in Italy in 2022.
If you’d like to make a donation to help Tim achieve his goal of learning more about oil painting in Italy, you can follow this link: Help Tim Attend an Italian Workshop.
Find more of Tim’s work on his website https://www.timothymjoe.com, and through Instagram.
Revisit the first Journaling With Nature podcast episode with Tim: Episode 49: Timothy M Joe – Honouring history through art.
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Susanne has come to know her neighbourhood intimately, through the lens of her camera, during daily nature walks. As a nature photographer, Susanne captures moments of connection and stillness in the natural world, noticing details and sharing this beauty with others.
Listen to hear more about:
- The power and significance of taking nature walks, throughout Susanne’s life.
- How Susanne started walking the same route every day, with her camera, and how this felt like a balm during an emotionally challenging time.
- The beauty of coming to know a particular place intimately.
- Susanne’s experience of ‘seeing God in the details’.
- Her relationship with stillness.
- Susanne’s weekly nature email “A Closer Look”.
- Writing, storytelling and nature connection.
- How moving experiences in nature can imprint a moment on our soul.
- How nature can teach us life lessons.
- Susanne’s nature journal practice, as a parent, as a teacher, and documenting her personal nature experiences.
To find out more about Susanne and her work, visit www.wren-photos.com.
To sign up to receive Susanne’s weekly nature email A Closer Look, use this link.
You can also follow Susanne on Instagram @wren_nature_photos.
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Harshitha is the founder of Gida Living Colours. She creates paints with plants and soil, transforming the landscape into vibrant and consciously sourced art materials. Harshitha is a member of the Natural Colours Collective, a group of nature enthusiasts sharing knowledge of natural and sustainable art practices.
Listen to hear more about:
- How Harshitha started Gida Living Colours.
- The ‘magic’ of using plants to create art materials.
- The Natural Colours Collective and the workshops they have created.
- Modifying the hue of natural inks by adding substances to change the pH level.
- How we can begin to be more mindful of the art materials we choose.
- Making natural brushes.
- Creating inks from invasive plant species.
- Harshitha’s experience giving hands-on workshops within communities.
Find out more about Harshitha and her work on Instagram @gida_livingcolours.
Follow the Natural Colours Collective on Instagram and take their online courses in creating inks and paints from natural materials.
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Julie is a biologist, artist and founder of Life Science Studios. As a scientific illustrator, she helps biologists communicate their research by creating imagery that captures and conveys the essential elements of their work. Problem solving, communication and artistic expression are all part of Julie's creative process.
Listen to hear more about:
- Julie’s early nature experiences.
- Types of scientific illustration and the many reasons people use scientific illustrations in their work.
- How Julie creates accurate scientific illustrations even when quality reference photos are difficult to source.
- The problem-solving aspects of Julie’s work.
- The intricacies of communication between client and artist that are involved in creating an illustration.
- How the pandemic has changed the way Julie works.
- Julie’s love of mushrooms and creating mushroom illustrations.
- Integrating hand drawn as well as digital elements into an illustration.
To find out more about Julie and her work, visit her website https://www.lifesciencestudios.com.
Follow Julie on Instagram @lifesciencestudios.
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Preethi is an artist living in Queens, New York. With an appreciation for all things woodland and whimsical, Preethi started Garden Slug Productions as a place to document her creative journey. Through all the uncertainty of recent times, she has come back to nature and art as a way to stay grounded.
Listen to hear more about:
- Preethi’s formative nature experiences during her early life in England.
- Lifelong learning and the importance of practicing new skills.
- The story behind the name Garden Slug Productions.
- Preethi’s Slugtember art challenge and creating community connections.
- The joy of connecting with others who share your creative passions.
- Preethi’s experience and insights from the pandemic.
- Art supplies and Preethi’s favourite art store.
- The importance of play.
Visit Preethi on Instagram @gardenslugproductions to view her artwork.
We spoke about an Australian mammal called a Quokka. You can learn more about this adorable but vulnerable animal here.
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Rafa is a biologist, ornithologist and illustrator. He has concentrated his career on birds and worked extensively studying bird migration and conservation in the Strait of Gibraltar. Rafa is the founder of Diarios de Naturaleza, where he helps others tap into their curiosity and creativity through nature journaling.
Listen to hear more about:
- Rafa’s connection to nature and art since his early life.
- Rafa’s work on bird migration in the Strait of Gibraltar.
- How bird migration can connect people and places.
- Educaves - a program focused on educating teachers on how birds can be used as an educational tool in the classroom.
- Diaros de Naturaleza and Rafa’s work teaching others about nature journaling.
- Rafa’s simple field sketching materials.
- Rafa’s experience of connecting with other nature journalers around the world.
- The importance to adding feelings to our nature journal pages.
- Natural discoveries Rafa has been exploring lately.
Find more about Rafa and Diarios de Naturaleza http://diariosdenaturaleza.com/.
You can also find Rafa on Instagram, Twitter and Facebook.
In this video that Rafa created for International Nature Journaling Week you can hear him answer the question “What does nature journaling mean to you?”
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Lara is a scientist and natural history illustrator based in Milan, Italy. Lara uses her nature journal as a place to learn new things and grow as an artist and naturalist. As someone who enjoys change, Lara is connected with the seasons and the transformation that each new season brings.
Listen to hear more about:
- How art therapy helped Lara reconnect with herself, art and nature.
- Lara’s project to learn more about common plant species found around her in the city.
- The story behind the name Alchemilla’s Corner.
- Lara’s thoughts on the difference between nature art and nature journaling.
- How nature journaling and mindfulness overlap.
- Lara’s project illustrating a cookbook.
- How growing, harvesting and cooking our food can connect us with plants in a meaningful way.
- The importance of seasons in Lara’s life and work.
To explore Lara’s work, follow her on Instagram @alchemillascorner.
If you are interested in wild plants and foraging you can follow the Instagram account of Erica @gli_orsini, who is the author of the cookbook that Lara illustrated.
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Verena is a wilderness educator and nature journal teacher helping others connect with nature in the city. She helps people come back to our essential wild nature, finding empathy and connection with all life around us. Verena shares her stories and insights on her podcast Wieder Wilder Werden.
Listen to hear more about:
- What wildness means for Verena living in a big city.
- What nature looks like in Berlin.
- Learning to notice and value common animals that live alongside us in cities.
- Learning empathy for nature from children.
- How Verena shares her feelings and thoughts about nature through Instagram.
- How nature of our childhood creates the feeling of home.
- Connecting with ourselves and others through our nature journals.
- Verena’s online and in person nature journaling workshops.
- Benefits and drawbacks of social media.
- Verena’s podcast Wieder Wilder Werden.
- Living in rhythm with the seasons.
Find out more about Verena and her work at https://wiederwilderwerden.de.
Follow Verena on Instagram @wiederwilderwerden.
Listen to Wieder Wilder Werden podcast here.
Bethan mentioned a book about finding nature in the city. The book is called Nature Obscura: A City’s Hidden Natural World by Kelly Brenner.
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Ginn is an artist who is inspired by nature. Much of her art is done en plein air, focusing on landscapes and skies. With a deep love for colour, Ginn knows the value of getting to know your paints by swatching, mixing and creating colour charts.
Listen to hear more about:
- Ginn’s early foundations in art and nature.
- How Ginn chooses different subjects for her art.
- Her thoughts on the difference between nature art and nature journaling.
- Ginn’s outdoor painting kit and how she adjusts it depending on the situation.
- Her process for quickly capturing landscapes and skies en plein air.
- The importance of swatching your watercolour paints.
- Art challenges and how they can motivate our creativity.
- Using art as a way to process the grief of troubling times.
- Tracking resident orcas as a way of connecting with nature.
You can see Ginn’s art on Instagram @alittlemealittlehue.
Listen to the Field Notes recording that Ginn created for Montana Public Radio - Staking out Territory: Loons on Kintla Lake.
Learn more about Orcas from the Orca Behavior Institute and the Georgia Strait Alliance.
For details on the Launch Party for the Nature Journal Club for Teens, follow this link. If you are a teenage nature journaler and would like to join the Facebook group, click here.
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Yvea is a botanist who has spent many years working in the field of restoration. Through her online workshop series,Plant Families in our Foods, she helped participants understand more about the plants we eat every day. Yvea is also the co-ordinator of the online nature journal gatherings "Pencil Miles and Chill".
Listen to hear more about:
- How restoration became part of Yvea’s life and work.
- The history of the restoration site at Crissy Field.
- How restoration work has created an unbreakable love and connection with the land for Yvea.
- The important observations and connections that Yvea has made through her nature journal records.
- How Yvea gathered her plant knowledge.
- The workshop series Plant Families in our Foods.
- The Pencil Miles and Chill sessions.
- The generous tradition that has grown up around Yvea’s birthday.
- Yvea's thoughts on the nature journal prompts 'I notice...I wonder...It reminds me of...'
Watch Yvea’s workshop series Plant Families in our Foods with these links -
Week 1: https://youtu.be/nB0CwbRZzhs
Week 2: https://youtu.be/USZjnOqmw4w
Week 3: https://youtu.be/zurjQiWcyAM
Week 4: https://youtu.be/8TH0BnJM9uQ
Week 5: https://youtu.be/PvllAh-TP1k
Week 6: https://youtu.be/AMnR2vXaL6Y
Week 7: https://youtu.be/MLRaJZFUF2w
Week 8: https://youtu.be/u6EZ2mdA0mk
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Miriam is a fire management specialist who promotes place-based fire education. Miriam uses nature journaling as a tool for tuning into the environment before, during and after fire. When we are aware of our environment in this deep way, we are better able to make decisions about fire awareness and management.
Listen to hear more about:
- How nature was a refuge for Miriam during childhood.
- The story of how Miriam came to make fire management and education her career.
- The history of fire exclusion and how this practice has changed the landscape.
- How Miriam helped bring nature journalers together to journal a prescribed fire and cultural burn.
- Why Miriam considers nature journaling fire a ‘full-brained and full-bodied experience’.
- Trauma informed approaches to fire education.
- How Miriam uses metadata to understand the fire environment.
- What information we can add to our nature journals before, during and after fire.
- Integrating fire into our sense of place.
Learn more about Miriam and her work at www.pyrosketchology.com. You can also find Miriam on Instagram, Facebook and Twitter.
To learn more about Indigenous fire management and cultural burning, check out the podcast Good Fire.
One of my previous podcast guests, Robin Carlson, also uses nature journaling to document fire. You can listen to that episode here.
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Heather is a nature journal teacher with a unique focus. She uses literature and history as a way of connecting her students with the natural world. In her online classes, Heather explores the life and landscape of authors such as Beatrix Potter, James Herriot, Jane Austen and The Brontë Sisters.
Listen to hear more about:
- Heather’s early nature experiences.
- The benefits and challenges of coming from an artistic family.
- Charlotte Mason and her focus on nature observation and nature journaling.
- How Heather came to be combining literature, history and nature journaling in her work.
- How studying the lives and landscapes of people in history can help us connect with our own present-day landscapes.
- The importance of ‘Teatime’ for Heather and her family.
- Heather’s favourite nature journaling materials and the colours she chooses for her palette.
- Sensory awareness in nature.
- How gratitude is an integral part of Heather’s nature connection.
Find out more about Heather and her online classes on her website: www.thenaturejournaler.com.
You can learn more about Heather’s membership program The Nature Creative here: www.thenaturejournaler.com/thenaturecreative.
Follow Heather on Instagram and Facebook.
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Mike is an artist and podcaster with a passion for nature. He especially enjoys creating intricately detailed drawings using a simple 2B graphite pencil. In his podcast, Drawing Inspiration, Mike explores the world of art through his own experience and through interviews with a wide range of guests.
Listen to hear more about:
- The special story of how Mike knew he wanted to be an artist at age 5.
- Why nature is an important theme in Mike’s artwork.
- Mike’s favourite art materials and why he always returns to graphite pencil.
- Digital art and how it can be used for nature journaling.
- The process of drawing a very detailed art piece using a 2B mechanical pencil.
- Why Mike started his podcast, Drawing Inspiration, and what you can expect when you listen.
- Some of the guests Mike has had on his podcast and the things they shared.
- How Mike gets through creative challenges and keeps inspired when things are tough.
- Building creative community and connecting with other artists.
You can listen to the sister episode of today’s show, where Mike interviews Bethan on the Drawing Inspiration podcast, here: https://drawinginspiration.fm/63.
Find out more about Mike and his work through his website: https://mikehendley.com.
You can follow Mike on Facebook, Twitter and Instagram.
Listen to all the episodes of Drawing Inspiration podcast at https://drawinginspiration.fm/about/ or by searching for Drawing Inspiration wherever you listen to podcasts.
Find the episodes related to a specific topic using the Starter Packs: https://drawinginspiration.fm/start/.
Support Mike’s work as an artist and podcaster via Patreon: https://www.patreon.com/drawinginspirationpodcast.
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Brenna is a permaculture illustrator who uses her art as a form of activism. Her work tackles big topics like politics, over consumption and the climate crisis, but always with a focus on positive solutions. Viewing her work will make you want to jump up and do something to make a positive change!
Listen to hear more about:
- The inspiring story of how Brenna found permaculture.
- How illustrating the book RetroSuburbia launched Brenna’s illustration career.
- Self-sufficiency vs community sufficiency.
- The power of community to make us more resilient during difficult times.
- How Brenna uses art as a form of activism.
- How illustrations can make an issue more relatable and engaging, as well as lighten the weight of a heavy subject.
- Brenna’s process for turning ideas into finished illustrations.
- How nature journaling can be useful for observations in creating a permaculture design.
- How to get children engaged through art, music literature.
To find out more about Brenna and her work, visit her website: https://www.brennaquinlan.com.
You can engage with Brenna’s art on Facebook and Instagram.
Follow the progress of Brenna and her partner while they build their eco home in Denmark, WA. Look for GrowDoIt on YouTube, Facebook and Instagram.
Please consider supporting Brenna’s work on Patreon. Your pledge helps her continue creating inspiring art which benefits people and the planet.
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Jane is recognised as one of the art world's foremost authorities on colour and colour mixing. She teaches workshops on watercolour technique and has collaborated with Daniel Smith Artists’ Materials to create the Ultimate Mixing Palette. She even has a colour named after her - Jane's Grey!
Listen to hear more about:
- How to understand pigment characteristics and use them to your benefit in a painting.
- Pigment numbers and what they mean.
- Why watercolour is Jane’s favourite medium.
- Jane’s favourite colours for painting skies.
- How to customise your colour choices to reflect the colour palette in your particular part of the world.
- Working with triads to achieve colour harmony.
- The power of phthalo green as a mixing colour and what it can do.
- Jane’s thoughts on primary colours.
- Colour families and their characteristics.
- Insights from Jane’s course Mastering Watercolour.
- The Daniel Smith colour named after Jane.
- Jane’s project to swatch every professional colour in the world.
Jane’s website (www.janeblundellart.com) and her blog (janeblundellart.blogspot.com) are invaluable resources for anyone who is interested in learning more about colour.
Learn more about Jane’s collaboration with Daniel Smith Artist' Materials to create the Ultimate Mixing Set. To accompany her palette, Jane has created a book called The Ultimate Mixing Palette: A world of colours. You can order the book as print-on-demand from Blurb.com.
To take Jane’s Mastering Watercolours course, click here.
Jane mentioned the book Nature’s Palette: A colour reference system for the natural world by Baty Patrick.
Glossary of watercolour terms:
Staining – Colours that absorb into the paper and are difficult to lift off once they are laid down.
Non-staining – Colours that can easily be lifted off (with a clean brush or paper towel) after they have been laid down.
Granulating – A textured effect that happens when certain coarse pigments settle into the grain of the watercolour paper.
Non-granulating – Colours that have fine pigments and leave a smooth, untextured finish on the paper.
Opaque – Watercolours that will cover a black line when used thickly.
Transparent – Watercolours that will allow other colours to show through.
Fugitive – Colours that fade or change over time.
Pigment number – a number on the back of a watercolour tube which identifies the pigments used to create that colour. You can have single pigment colours or multiple pigment paints where several pigments are used to create the colour.
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Ayoka is a visual trainer and information illustrator. She uses the tools and techniques of sketchnoting to simplify and communicate information. Combining sketchnoting with her gratitude practice, Ayoka has invented a new form of creative expression - GratiDoodling!
Listen to hear more about:
- Ayoka’s early nature experiences, tagging along in the field with her zoologist parents.
- The amazing “coincidence” that led Ayoka to find sketchnoting.
- What is meant by a visual vocabulary.
- How Ayoka started turning her hobby into a career.
- The power of using sketchnoting in speech therapy.
- Why combining words and pictures together deepens communication and understanding.
- How choosing simple materials can free you of art anxiety.
- The similarities and differences between sketchnoting and nature journaling and how they can be combined.
- Ayoka’s concept of GratiDoodles and her new Skillshare class
You can learn more about Ayoka on her website: https://sagsvisuell.de
Take Ayoka’s Skillshare class using this link: Let’s GratitDoodle! A Joyful Approach to Building a Creative Practice
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Kelly is a creative nature connection guide. Her work involves giving children and adults a variety of opportunities to connect with nature through creativity. Kelly has written many books on nature and art including her most recent book Draw Yourself Back to Nature.
Listen to hear more about:
- The influences in Kelly’s young life that shaped who she is today.
- The importance of independent outdoor play.
- How Kelly came to Montessori teaching and started Wings, Worms and Wonder.
- The ways Kelly helps different age groups connect with nature.
- Why art is so useful for creating connections with nature and with each other.
- How giving children opportunities to practice risk-benefit analysis (inherent in nature play) gives them tools and strategies that they can use in adolescence to make safer decisions.
- How we are connected in a global network.
- How sharing nature journaling can help us appreciate nature in other places.
- How to tune into ‘nature’s whispers’.
Sign up to receive Kelly’s Wonder Wednesdays newsletters via her website: https://wingswormsandwonder.com
Learn all about Kelly’s books and other offerings here: https://wingswormsandwonder.com/category/books/
Follow Kelly on Instagram @wingswormsandwonder.
To read the blog post that Kelly wrote for International Nature Journaling Week click here: https://www.naturejournalingweek.com/blogs/sparking-wonder-and-connection
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Billie Jo is an outdoor educator with the Peel District School Board. Before the pandemic, Billie Jo was teaching in person at local field centres. Now she is bringing nature journaling to children of all age groups, inventing creative ways to connect students with nature through the virtual classroom.
Listen to hear more about:
- Billie Jo’s early nature experiences.
- The winding road to how Billie Jo become an outdoor educator.
- Billie Jo’s work with the Peel District School Board, what her days looked like, pre-covid, running field centre trips with schools.
- The joys and challenges of creatively engaging virtual classes during covid times.
- How Billie Jo came to nature journaling.
- The Nature Journaling Educators Forum and the Wild Wonder Nature Journaling Teacher’s Conference.
- Being a nature journaling beginner and learning along with the students.
- The flexibility of nature journaling to meet students wherever they are.
- Tips on teaching nature journaling when you’re a beginner yourself.
- The two triads of nature journaling: Words, pictures & numbers; I notice…I wonder…It reminds me of…
To explore all the online resources Billie Jo and the Peel District School Board have been creating, visit their website: https://sites.google.com/view/pdsblearningnaturally.
If you are interested in joining John Muir Laws and the community for the Nature Journal Educator's Forum, you can find the details on the community calendar on Jack's website here: https://johnmuirlaws.com/events/category/jml/
Find Billie Jo on instagram here: @billiejooutdoors.
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Sabrina is an interpreter, educator, and makeup enthusiast. She uses makeup to explore the natural world, capturing the essence of plants and animals in her choice of colour, shape and detail.
Listen to hear more about:
- How Sabrina came to environmental education and interpretation.
- The power of interpretation to bring environmental issues alive by relating them to people’s everyday lives.
- Sabrina’s love of makeup and how she started using makeup to capture and communicate about the natural world.
- Sabrina’s process for creating a nature inspired makeup look, using colour, shape and fine details.
- How Sabrina chooses her subjects for makeup looks.
- Challenging the stereotypes of who can spend time in nature!
To see Sabrina’s incredible, nature inspired makeup looks, visit her Instagram page @a.stroke.of.nature.
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Sarah is an artist from Wales who creates artwork celebrating ecology and connection. She shares stories of landscape, history, folklore and family. Sarah knows the value of being in quiet conversation with the natural world.
Listen to hear more about:
- Sarah’s childhood growing up in a remote part of Wales.
- Specialising in printmaking at art school.
- The ability of words to connect us with history, landscape and culture.
- How nature has helped Sarah through difficult times in life.
- The connection that is made when we take the time to draw something in nature.
- The importance of gardening, growing and sharing food.
- Sarah’s flower farming project and how the gift of nature can be a way of connecting with loved ones during this time of social distancing.
You can find Sarah’s artwork and photographs on Instagram @sarah_byfield. She is also in launching a website soon and you can sign up to her newsletter at www.sarahbyfield.com.
Sarah talked about The Lost Words. You can learn more about that project at www.thelostwords.org.
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Nature journaling is a deeply rewarding experience and can be adapted to suit each child's age and interest. If you would like to learn ways that you can nature journal with the children in your life, this episode is for you.
In today's solo show, I talk about how nature journaling with children looks different for different age groups. We will go into activities and techniques that can be used at each stage.
Listen to hear more about:
- Simple things you can do to make nature journaling trips more successful with children of any age.
- Nature journaling with children in the early years (ages 0 - 4).
- Nature journaling with children in the primary years (ages 5 - 12).
- Nature journaling with children in the teenage years (ages 13 - 18).
- Books and resources that will help you teach nature journaling to children.
To read the blog post associated with this episode, follow this link: https://www.journalingwithnature.com/blog/journaling-at-every-age.
To buy a copy of How to Teach Nature Journaling by John Muir Laws and Emilie Lygren, visit www.johnmuirlaws.com/product/how-to-teach-nature-journaling/.
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Tim is an artist from Alabama who has a strong connection with the history and stories held within the landscape around him. Through art, Tim pays respect to the landscape and the man-made structures within it, honouring the past and preserving this on canvas for the future.
Tim gives workshops on art and nature journaling and brings warmth and humour to his classes, encouraging and supporting his students through every step in the creative process.
Listen to hear more about:
- Tim’s beginnings as an artist and his early artistic influences.
- The Joe Farm and their bird and nature tours.
- Tim’s favourite subjects to paint and his advice for finding your own creative voice.
- How art can honour history.
- How Tim uses different media in his art.
- Colour and colour mixing.
Find Tim online at timothymjoe.com, as well as on Instagram and Facebook.
Visit the website of The Joe Farm, where the family does bird and nature tours, sharing the wildlife of their 200 acre property.
Listen out for part two of this conversation with Tim!
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Paula is an Australian ecologist, artist, author and educator. Her work brings together her background in science and her love of art, connecting people with place, through nature journaling. For Paula, nature journaling encompasses the whole spectrum of experience - body, mind and heart.
Listen to hear more about:
- How Paula’s studies in zoology and ecology laid the foundation for nature journaling.
- How Paula transitioned from her office job into her career as a nature journal teacher.
- Paula’s books on the subject of nature journaling.
- How she connects people with place through her workshops.
- The importance of highlighting our emotional response to nature.
- How drawing directly with a pen can enhance our ability to focus on the moment and let go of art fears.
- Paula’s thoughts on the link between nature journaling and stewardship.
Find Paula on her website www.paperbarkwriter.com, as well as on Instagram, Facebook and Twitter.
You can purchase Paula’s books, Make a Date With Nature and Take This Book for a Walk, as well as many other products, in her online shop.
If you would like to join the Facebook group Paula started visit: Nature Journaling Australia.
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Lara is a botanical artist and illustrator from Virginia. Through her work as chief illustrator for the Flora of Virginia Project, and her perpetual nature journal, which she has been keeping for two decades, Lara has developed a deep connection with the native and naturalised plants of her home state.
Listen to hear more about:
- Lara’s botanical illustration work through the Flora of Virginia Project.
- The concept of the perpetual nature journal and how it began.
- Ways for beginners to overcome fear of the blank page.
- Lara’s attraction to the ‘story’ behind a plant and the change and decay that happens as plants age.
- Lara’s favourite colours and how she uses colour in her perpetual journal.
- How to listen to nature and be in dialogue with the natural world while you are journaling.
- How keeping a perpetual nature journal can become a life-long project connecting you with your nearby nature.
Find Lara on her website, www.laracallgastinger.com, as well as on Instagram @laragastinger.
A wonderful way to continue to learn from Lara and support her work, is through Patreon. You can find Lara on patreon here: www.patreon.com/laragastinger.
If you keep a perpetual nature journal, or would like to see other amazing perpetual journals, use the hashtag #lgperpetualjournal on Instagram.
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Sabine comes from an artistic family and has many different creative interests, including sewing, embroidery, vintage fashion and especially, growing and painting houseplants. Sabine shares the story of how she began growing houseplants and capturing them in a nature journal.
Listen to hear more about:
- How Sabine started collecting houseplants.
- The darker side of the houseplant industry.
- Sabine’s favourite media for capturing houseplants in her sketchbook.
- Thoughts on painting living, growing, moving subjects.
- What nature looks like where Sabine lives, in Switzerland.
- The times when you might need glittery paint as a houseplant artist!
- Making online connections through plants and art.
- Livestreaming on the platform Twitch.
Find Sabine on Instagram using this link - https://www.instagram.com/houseplant.sketchbook
Sabine’s sewing blog can be found here - https://petersilieundco.com/
Watch Sabine painting on Twitch - https://www.twitch.tv/sabineplantqueen
Here are two books recommended by Sabine, for those interested in plants:
- Kew Gardens Rare Plants: The Story of 40 of the World's Most Unusual and Endangered Plants
- The Plants Messiahs - Carlos Magdalena
Some interesting articles recommended by Sabine:
- Ten ways to make your houseplant addiction more sustainable: https://www.janeperrone.com/blog/2021/5/5/ten-ways-to-make-your-houseplant-addiction-more-sustainable
- Money grows on trees: Into the world of super rare houseplants: https://thelatch.com.au/money-grows-on-trees-into-the-world-of-super-rare-houseplants/
- Who’s paying $5,000 for one houseplant? More people than you’d think: https://www.vice.com/en/article/pkyw5v/most-rare-and-expensive-houseplants-variegated
- The dark side of the houseplant boom: https://www.theatlantic.com/culture/archive/2021/04/dark-side-houseplant-boom-nature-empathy/618638/
- Rare plants: The impact of seeking the desirable: https://www.janeperrone.com/blog/2020/4/28/6amavoaxaon1paxmiczutsh6haqaco
- The case of the purloined orchid: https://www.sarasotamagazine.com/news-and-profiles/2005/03/the-case-of-the-purloined-orchid
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Candace Rose Rardon is a writer, illustrator and visual storyteller. As a travel writer, Candace spent more than a decade living abroad, immersed in the culture of each country she would visit. Candace found her niche when she started using a sketchbook to visually document her travels.
Listen to hear more about:
- How art and creativity were a natural part of Candace’s childhood.
- How Candace found her way into a career in travel writing.
- The ‘travel mindset’ and how we can live from a place of wonder, even in our own backyards.
- The story of how Candace began combining her travel writing with sketchbook art.
- How sketching on location is a portal to connection with others.
- How Candace founded the global sketching movement “Moment Sketchers”.
- How the ‘journey’ of a creative project can bring the same excitement and thrill that travel brings.
Find out more about Candace through her website: candaceroserardon.com and on Instagram.
Candace talked about writing sleep stories for the app Calm. Find out more about Calm here: www.calm.com.
During the interview, Candace mentioned a quote by Flaubert. Here is the quote: “Be regular and orderly in your life, so that you may be violent and original in your work.”― Gustave Flaubert
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June has been a very busy month for nature journalers around the world. We have had International Nature Journaling Week as well as the Wild Wonder Nature Journaling Conference, among other opportunities. Today's short episode is a chat about June and all that has happened this month.
June has been a very busy month for nature journalers around the world. We have had International Nature Journaling Week as well as the Wild Wonder Nature Journaling Conference, among other opportunities. Today's short episode is a chat about June and all that has happened this month.
- Find out more about Tania Marien’s work connecting freelance environmental educators at talaterra.com.
- To find all the resources and watch the workshop recordings for International Nature Journaling Week, visit www.naturejournalingweek.com.
- To register for a video pass for the Wild Wonder Nature Journaling Conference go to www.johnmuirlaws.com/wildwonder.
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Andy has a long history of connecting with nature, both personally and professionally. He has helped people of all ages find joy in nature through his bushcraft programs. Andy now works with students at the local Steiner school, where nature and art are integrated into everyday learning.
Listen to hear more about:
- Andy’s thoughts on nature mentors.
- Nature in South East Queensland through the eyes of a native Englishman.
- Observing and experiencing as the two key tenants of nature awareness.
- What bushcraft means to Andy.
- The ‘village’ created through Andy’s Sun and Stars Bushcraft program and how it tapped into our innate way of being together in community.
- Giving young children the skills and responsibility of mastering ‘risky’ bushcraft activities like knife skills and fire lighting.
- How art and nature connection are integrated into the daily lives of students at the Steiner school where Andy teaches.
You can find Andy on Instagram at Sun and Stars Bushcraft.
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June has been a huge month for nature journaling and it’s not over yet! We still have two very exciting events coming up: The Wild Wonder Teacher’s Conference and the Wild Wonder Nature Journaling Conference. In Today’s episode we will revisit conversations I had with some of the artists and educators who will be teaching at these exciting events.
Listen to hear excerpts of conversations with:
- Liz Clayton Fuller
- Fiona Gillogly
- John Muir Laws
- Robin Carlson
- Melinda Nakagawa
- Sterre Verbokkem
- Marley Peifer
- Roseann Hanson
- Emilie Lygren
To find out more about the Wild Wonder Nature Journaling Teacher’s Conference, visit: https://johnmuirlaws.com/wild-wonder-nature-journaling-teachers-conference/
To learn about the Wild Wonder Nature Journaling Conference visit: https://johnmuirlaws.com/wildwonder/
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Isabella is a landscape planner and restoration ecologist with a special love for plants. Isabella enjoys exploring details in the world around her. She uses the nature journal as a tool for learning more and deepening her understanding of nature.
Listen to hear more about:
- The most significant memory from Isabella’s childhood that sparked her future connection with nature.
- Isabella’s work as a landscape planner and restoration ecologist.
- The Austrian based NGO Books For Trees and what their work involves.
- How Isabella got started with nature journaling and when she started to use images as well as text.
- The German language Facebook group for nature journalers.
- Isabella’s botanical workshops.
- The contents of Isabella’s pencil case that she takes with her for nature journaling.
- Isabella’s pet slime mould!
The NGO that Isabella is part of is called Books For Trees. You can find out more about their projects here: www.booksfortrees.at/en/home/
The German language nature journal Facebook group that Isabella mentioned can be found here: www.facebook.com/groups/dasnaturskizzenbuch
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Hani adalah mahasiswa Konservasi Sumber Daya Hutan yang memiliki hasrat untuk berkarya melalui ilustrasi botani dan nature journaling. Hani menggunakan jurnalnya untuk mendokumentasikan ekosistem tropis yang ada di sekitarnya, dan ia sengaja menulis dengan Aksara Jawa, sebagai cara untuk melestarikan warisan budayanya.
Simak untuk mendengar lebih lanjut tentang:
- Ingatan masa kecil Hani tentang alam.
- Siklus dua musim dalam iklim tropis dan bagaimana ini mempengaruhi observasi terhadap perubahan musim.
- Studi Hani di universitas dan kemana masa depan akan menunutunnya.
- Mengapa Hani tertarik pada tanaman sebagai subyek studi dan nature journal-nya.
- Apa arti nature journaling bagi Hani dan mengapa itu menjadi penting.
- Bagaimana Hani mengembangkan kemampuan menggambarnya.
- Pemahaman Hani tentang menemukan keajaiban dalam hal-hal sederhana, seperti tanaman di halamannya sendiri.
- Misi Hani untuk melestarikan alam dan kebudayaan secara bersamaan, dan bagaimana keduanya saling terkait.
Jumpai Hani lewat Instagram @hani_ristiawan.
Anda dapat menyaksikan video yang dibuat Hani untuk International Nature Journaling Week, menjawab pertanyaan “Apa arti nature journaling bagi Anda?” di sini.
Untuk informasi lebih lanjut tentang International Nature Journaling Week, silakan kunjungi www.naturejournalingweek.com.
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Hani is a student of Forest Resources Conservation with a passion for botanical illustration and nature journaling. Hani uses his nature journal to document the tropical ecosystems around him and intentionally writes in Javanese script, as a way of preserving his cultural heritage.
Listen to hear more about:
- Hani’s childhood memories of nature.
- The two seasons in a tropical climate and how this influences observation of seasonal change.
- Hani’s university studies and where they will lead him.
- Why Hani is drawn to plants as a subject for his studies and his nature journal.
- What nature journaling means to Hani and why it is important.
- How Hani has developed his drawing ability.
- Hani’s insights about finding wonder in the simple things, like the plants in the garden.
- Hani’s mission to preserve both nature and culture and how the two are interlinked.
Find Hani on Instagram @hani_ristiawan.
You can see the video that Hani created for International Nature Journaling Week answering the question “What does nature journaling mean to you?” here.
For more information about International Nature Journaling Week, visit www.naturejournalingweek.com.
Special thanks to Esti Widyasari for making this episode possible through her translation of our conversation.
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Yvonne Cuaresma is the founder of The Climate Journal Project, a movement where people are using journaling as a tool to process climate anxiety and ecological grief. Yvonne has created a community where people can process emotions in a supportive space and move from feelings of hopelessness into action.
Listen to hear more about:
- The Climate Journal Project, what it is and how it started.
- Coping with climate anxiety and environmental grief through journaling.
- The Climate Journal Project books and the prompts that they contain.
- The power of journaling together in a group and the benefits that can bring.
- What Yvonne sees in nature around her in California.
- How working together as a connected community can further environmental work.
- The role of intentional gratitude in this work.
- The power of technology to connect people and create a movement for change.
Learn more about The Climate Journal Project at www.theclimatejournalproject.com and on Instagram @climatejournalproject and Facebook.
Here are a few extra links relevant to climate change and nature journaling ecological grief:
Robin Carlson’s podcast episode Fire Ecology and the Changing Landscape.
Patricia Larenas’ podcast Talking With Trees.
Coco Brdar’s blog post Nature Journaling When Nature is Wounded.
If you would like to listen to an accessible, informative and overall very positive podcast about climate change, I can highly recommend How To Save a Planet with hosts Alex Blumberg and Dr. Ayana Elizabeth Johnson.
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Kirsten Carlson is an artist and science communicator with a focus on sharing the beauty and wonder of the undersea world. Kirsten's career has given her many opportunities for adventure, including the chance to sketch under the sea ice as an expeditionary artist in Antarctica.
Listen to hear more about:
- The physical challenges of undersea sketching and how Kirsten adapted her process to Antarctic conditions.
- The three different habitats that Kirsten experienced (sea ice, water column and sea floor) and the animals that she encountered at each of these levels.
- The current online exhibition inspired by artistic work in the Antarctic - Adequate Earth: Artists and Writers in Antarctica.
- The reason why a sketchbook is so important in Kirsten’s process.
- What art and science communication mean for encouraging others to connect with nature.
To learn more about Kirsten and her work visit www.kirstencarlson.net. For information, videos, artwork and content specifically related to Kirsten’s Antarctic explorations, visit her Fathom Antarctica website.
To see the field-sketches that Kirsten created in Antarctica, click here.
Kirsten’s work is currently being shown as part of an online exhibition which you can visit here: Adequate Earth: Artists and Writers in Antarctica.
During the interview, Kirsten spoke of a blog post documenting the installation of an observation tube into the sea ice. You can see videos of this process here.
Take a look at the gorgeous infographic Kirsten created: 7 Facets of Field Sketching.
As part of the Adequate Earth online exhibition, there will be a mini symposium called Exploring the Way Forward, where a panel of Antarctic artists and writers (including Kirsten) will explore the future of creative endeavours in Antarctica. The event will be held on 22nd May, 2021, beginning at 11am PDT. You can register for this event here.
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Kirsten Carlson is an artist and science communicator with a focus on sharing the beauty and wonder of the undersea world. Kirsten's career has given her many opportunities for adventure, including the chance to sketch under the sea ice as an expeditionary artist in Antarctica.
Listen to hear more about:
- How a young girl from Missouri, growing up far from the ocean, fell in love with the undersea world and became a marine scientist.
- How Kirsten switched to follow a career in scientific illustration after a lifechanging trip to Antarctica.
- The details of Kirsten’s first Antarctic trip, in 1992, and the inspiring artists who showed her you can combine science and art as a career.
- Conveying the stories of science and sea life through art.
- Kirsten’s second expedition to Antarctica as part of the National Science Foundation’s Antarctic Artists and Writers program.
- The feelings that arise when Kirsten is diving under the sea ice in Antarctica.
- The drawing tools that Kirsten used for undersea drawing.
To learn more about Kirsten and her work visit www.kirstencarlson.net. For information, videos, artwork and content specifically related to Kirsten’s Antarctic explorations, visit her Fathom Antarctica website.
To see the field-sketches that Kirsten created in Antarctica, click here.
Kirsten’s work is currently being shown as part of an online exhibition which you can visit here: Adequate Earth: Artists and Writers in Antarctica.
During the interview, Kirsten spoke of a blog post documenting the installation of an observation tube into the sea ice. You can see videos of this process here.
Take a look at the gorgeous infographic Kirsten created: 7 Facets of Field Sketching.
As part of the Adequate Earth online exhibition, there will be a mini symposium called Exploring the Way Forward, where a panel of Antarctic artists and writers (including Kirsten) will explore the future of creative endeavours in Antarctica. The event will be held on 22nd May, 2021, beginning at 11am PDT. You can register for this event here.
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Tim Pond is an educator, author, illustrator and naturalist with a passion for drawing wildlife. He has a unique way of quickly capturing a subject with dynamic lines and shading. Tim’s book, The Field Guide to Drawing and Sketching Animals, brings science and art together to give the reader the knowledge and skills needed to create animal drawings full of life and movement.
Listen to hear more about:
- Tim’s development as a professional artist and how he came to be doing this work.
- Tim's adventures sketching in Alaska.
- The story behind how Tim came to create his amazing book The Field Guide to Drawing and Sketching Animals.
- How Tim manages to achieve freedom and drama in his drawings while still maintaining technical accuracy in scale and perspective.
- How knowing a little about the anatomy of your animal subject can help make your drawings come to life.
- What Tim means when he talks about Widgets and Gizmos, and how to use them in your drawings.
- Tim’s favourite tools and materials.
Find more about Tim on his website www.timpond.co.uk, as well as on Twitter, Facebook and Instagram.
You can find Tim’s book, The Field Guide to Drawing and Sketching Animals, here.
Tim will be giving a workshop for International Nature Journaling Week entitled 'Fill your nature journal with hand drawn lettering'. The workshop will be on 1st June, 2021, at 9 am PST. Click here for more details and to read the class description.
International Nature Journaling Week will be 1-7th June, 2021. In the lead-up to the event, people are sharing their responses to the question 'What does nature journaling mean to you?' To view the videos being shared, click here.
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Emilie is an educator, facilitator and poet, whose work reflects a deep commitment to creating a more connected world. She finds joy in exploring the interplay between scientific thinking and poetry and values how each of these ways of thinking can inform the other.
Listen to hear more about:
- Emilie’s work with the BEETLES project and how she has developed as an environmental educator.
- How the BEETLES team connects with community partners to help make their programming more equitable, diverse, and inclusive.
- How Emilie began nature journaling and how she always finds her way back to poetry.
- Social-emotional learning, what it is and how it can be fostered in learners.
- Emilie’s collaboration with John Muir Laws, first writing their outdoor learning curriculum and then their book “How to Teach Nature Journaling”.
- The power of using words, pictures and numbers, in tandem, on a nature journal page.
- The transformative power of connection to the self, community and land.
- The easy co-existence of science and poetry in Emilie’s work.
Find more about Emilie through her website emilielygren.com. You can order her poetry book ‘What We Were Born For’ using this link.
Emilie is co-author of the book ‘How to Teach Nature Journaling’. You can order the book from her website here.
You can learn more about the BEETLES project through their website beetlesproject.org.
Click on the names below to discover more about some of Emilie’s favourite poets:
- Naomi Shihab Nye
- Jericho Brown
- Kim Stafford
Robin Wall Kimmerer’s book, Braiding Sweetgrass, is a work that talks about the interweaving of science, indigenous wisdom and the heart. Find out more about the book and its author at robinwallkimmerer.com.
Emilie will be giving a poetry workshop at International Nature Journaling Week on June 1st, and teaching a class at the Wild Wonder Nature Journaling Conference. You can learn more about the conference and register by going to johnmuirlaws.com/wildwonder.
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Danny is an artist, author and co-founder of Sketchbook Skool, an online creative hub filled with courses, workshops and a thriving creative community. Danny's work involves helping people establish a creative habit and calm their inner critic. Danny is the author of more than a dozen books on art and creativity, including Shut Your Monkey, Art Before Breakfast and The Creative Licence.
Listen to hear more about:
- Sketchbook Skool, what it is and what you will experience through the workshops, courses and SBS membership program, Spark.
- What Danny means when he refers to ‘the monkey’.
- How to manage the inner critic and turn down the volume on the voice in your head.
- Understanding the world around you through art.
- How art can help get us out of our heads and into the present moment, during difficult times in life.
- How to free up and let go of fears about art.
- Finding connection with others across the world, with the help of technology.
Find out more about Danny on his website www.dannygregory.com.
Danny writes a weekly essays about art and creativity. You can sign up to receive the essays directly to your inbox using this link.
You can watch episodes of Draw With Me, live on YouTube, Thursdays at noon (Eastern Time), or watch previously recorded episodes here.
Danny has a podcast called Art For All. You can find it by clicking this link, or searching for ‘Art For All’ wherever you find podcasts.
You can find the book by Frederik Frank, that Danny referred to, here: The Zen of Seeing.
Danny has generously offered listeners of this podcast the chance to try out his Sketchbook Skool membership program Spark for a week, for free! Find out more about Spark using the link: sketchbookskool.com/spark/naturepodcast.
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Roseann is a naturalist, artist, and explorer who has been keeping science-based nature journals for 40 years. She teaches nature writing and nature journaling, both online and in the field, and is the author of the book 'Nature Journaling for a Wild Life'. Roseann is also one of the organisers of the Wild Wonder Nature Journaling Conference.
Listen to hear more about:
- Roseann’s early nature experiences and how they taught her to love nature.
- The Grinnell Method of keeping field notebooks.
- What she's referring to when Roseann talks about 'jumping off cliffs'.
- Roseann’s connection with desert environments of Arizona and deserts around the world.
- How Roseann overcame a perfectionist tendency, let go of art fears and started ‘drawing to learn instead of learning to draw’.
- Roseann’s minimalist nature journaling field kit.
- 'Feral watercolour' and how Roseann creates her own watercolour pigments for truly place-based nature journaling.
- Roseann’s book ‘Nature Journaling For a Wild Life’.
Find Roseann online through her website www.exploringoverland.com as well as on Facebook and Instagram.
You can purchase Roseann’s book ‘Nature Journaling For A Wild Life’ here.
If you would like to be part of Roseann’s class ‘Feral Watercolor: Making paint from your own found pigments’ which is happening on Saturday, April 24, 2021, 9:30 am – 12 pm PST. You can find the link here.
To learn more about the Wild Wonder Nature Journaling Conference that Roseann helps organise, follow this link.
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Laura has a passion for houseplants and has created a small jungle inside her home. She now combines her interest in plants with a love of drawing and painting, a combination which provides a calm sanctuary among the stressors of life. During the interview, Laura opens up about anxiety and depression and how nature and art help her find strength, and care for herself, during stressful times.
Listen to hear more about:
- How and why Laura surrounds herself with houseplants.
- How nature and art can be a ‘mental shelter’ in times of anxiety.
- The deep connection that can be developed with plants.
- How finding time to draw can sometimes be hard when overwhelmed by the needs of those we care for.
- How Laura gives focused attention to her plants to discover their individual needs.
- Colour mixing and how achieving a good colour match is part theory and part intuition.
- How Laura’s life has changed since the pandemic and how she has adapted to these changes.
- How we can tune into our innate connection with nature.
Discover more about Laura through her website as well as on Instagram @myprivategarden_ and Twitter @myprivategarde1.
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Christiane is an artist, writer and adult educator. She uses a range of artistic forms to explore nature in different ways, finding beauty in simplicity and poetry in the everyday things she experiences in nature. During our conversation, Christiane explains her creative process and the ways that each of these different art forms can be used to capture a different aspect of nature.
Listen to hear more about:
- How Christiane’s family fostered her love and connection with nature in childhood.
- Simple ways to bring writing into our nature journal.
- The way nature writing can capture memories.
- Constructing a haiku poem to capture a moment in nature.
- The way nature journaling connects with a desire to protect nature.
- How art is a way to touch people’s feelings and help them become nature stewards.
Find Christiane’s art, photography and nature writing on her website www.weismueller-photography.com. Christiane writes a blog about nature journaling which you can read here. You can also see pages from Christiane’s nature journal on her Instagram page @christianeweismueller.nature.
Christiane wrote a blog post for International Nature Journaling Week called Nature Journaling as a Source of Creativity.
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Rebecca Roberts is the founder of EnviroVisuals. Her work in the field of graphic recording helps make sustainability information understandable and accessible to everyone. Graphic recording is all about distilling key information from a presentation or event, showing links between various concepts and capturing the essence of all this on paper, using art and language. Rebecca describes her process and much more in this interview.
Listen to hear more about:
- How and when Rebecca’s environmental awareness started.
- What graphic recording involves and how it is similar to, and different from, sketchnoting.
- The process of creating a graphic during a conference.
- Creating a ‘visual library’ that you can use during sketchnoting or graphic recording.
- How visual communication can facilitate understanding between people, regardless of language barriers or literacy levels.
- Ways to process environmental grief and anxiety.
- How we can be a positive influence on those around us by taking small steps towards sustainability each day.
- How to get started with graphic recording and sketchnoting for yourself.
Find Rebecca’s work on her website enviro-visuals.co.uk, as well as on Instagram @envirovisuals and Twitter @envirovisuals. You can purchase Rebecca’s ‘Sustainabili-Tea Towels’ from her Etsy store.
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Marina Cerra is an engineerby day and botanical artist by night, fitting art and nature connection into spare moments wherever she can find them, among the busyness of family life.
Listen to hear more about:
- How Marina reconnected with nature and art.
- Reflections on how the simple moments in childhood can become significant in later life.
- How Marina manages to continue creating art while raising two young children.
- Adjusting our mindset to understand what is achievable during busy times.
- Marina’s thoughts on the benefits and drawbacks of art challenges.
- How paying attention to individual plant species is a form of respect for nature.
- The idea of a perpetual nature journal and how to create one.
- Marina’s thoughts on colour and the changing seasons.
Find Marina’s work on her website marinacerra.com and Instagram @marina_cerra.
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Isaiah Scott is a nature journaler, birder and wildlife photographer with a passion for nature and a mission to research the historical connections between birds and the people of the Gullah Geechee Cultural Heritage Corridor.
Listen to hear more about:
- How Isaiah started birding.
- Nature and birds of the Lowcountry.
- Isaiah’s favourite place to go birding and nature journaling.
- Bird Names for Birds and why Isaiah is working to change honorific bird names.
- Isaiah’s field kit and favourite nature journaling tools.
- The Eckelberry Fellowship and how it sparked Isaiah’s inspirational research project.
- The Gullah Geechee Cultural Heritage Corridor and Isaiah’s research into the birds that interacted with enslaved people in this area.
Follow Isaiah on Instagram where you will find his work as a birding guide and wildlife photographer @ikesbirdinghikes and his bird art @therookerycollection. To purchase prints of Isaiah’s art you can visit his online store through the Charleston Art Market.
To learn more about the Gullah Geechee Cultural Heritage Corridor please visit gullahgeecheecorridor.org and for information on Gullah Geechee culture, cuisine, art and music, visit www.hiltonheadisland.org/gullah/.
To learn more about Bird Names for Birds and why it is important to get rid of honorific bird names, visit birdnamesforbirds.wordpress.com.
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Hello and welcome!
I am so happy to be back after taking February off the podcast. While I took a break from releasing episodes, I didn't stop recording them. So, I have many wonderful new interviews to share with you in the coming weeks.
This episode is in response to a question from a podcast listener called Dan. Dan asked me if I had any tips to avoid overwhelm when starting out with nature journaling. There are so many resources, blog posts, videos and workshops on nature journaling these days and it is hard to know where to start. I have felt this same overwhelm myself! In answer to Dan's question, I have created a list of '10 Things to Help Avoid Nature Journal Overwhelm'.
Here are some resources that I mention during the podcast:
- The Nature Journal Connection is a weekly video series by John Muir Laws. This series is the most concise and simple introduction to nature journaling that I've seen and I recommend it for kids as well as adults.
- If you're feeling nervous to sketch in your journal, take a look at the For The Reluctant Artist page on the International Nature Journaling Week website. There are lots of ideas there for calming your inner-critic.
- If you want to join an online nature journal club, here are a couple that might match your time zone:
Monterey Bay Nature Journal Club (Pacific Time)
Melbourne Nature Journal Club (Australian Eastern Daylight Time) - John Muir Laws has information to support you if you want to start your own nature journal club. You can find this here.
- If you're interested in weekly nature journal prompts you can find them on my blog or on Instagram and Facebook.
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- To help make this podcast sustainable you can support Journaling With Nature Podcast on Patreon, Your contribution is deeply appreciated.
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Hello!
Today I don’t have an episode for you but this is just a quick check-in to let you know that I’m taking February off the podcast.
I’ve had a lot of complications and turmoil here lately and finding the time to invest in researching, interviewing, editing and publishing an episode every week has been a real challenge.
I want to take this month to re-centre and find way that I can make this project sustainable in the long term. I absolutely LOVE creating this podcast. It has brought me deep joy and connection with guests and listeners from all over the world and I am not going anywhere! I just need to take a short pause to recalibrate and to figure out ways to make this sustainable in terms of the time investment required to create an episode each week and also financial investment, because there are quite a lot of costs involved too.
So I will be taking February off, but I am honestly missing the process already and February has only just started! So that’s a good sign, it means that I love what we are creating together here and I am determined to find ways to make it sustainable.
I have a lot of exciting things coming up in March. New guests, new formats…I am bursting to tell you all about it but I am going to keep it all as a surprise for march!
So, Monday March 1st I’ll be back here and ready to go and I hope you’ll be there too…there is so much coming up I really can’t wait!
Thanks so much for your support.
See you on March 1st!
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Bill is an artist and nature journaler living in Tucson, Arizona. He blends traditional and digital art techniques to create a unique process and style that utilises the best of both forms of art. In this interview Bill speaks in detail about his art practice - the tools, techniques and also the technology that he uses to create his work.
Listen to hear more about:
- How Bill came to nature journaling.
- How setting a one-hour limitation helps Bill focus on his journal pages and capture the essence of his subject without getting too lost in detail.
- Toned paper and why Bill loves to use it.
- The benefits of gouache vs acrylic vs acrylic-gouache.
- Using warm and cool highlights and shadows to increase realism and three-dimensionality of a piece.
- The benefits of a limited palette for creating colour harmony.
- How Bill switches between digital and traditional painting to make the best of each of these tools.
- Bill’s latest nature journal discoveries.
Find out more about Bill on his website billsingleton.com and on Instagram and YouTube.
You can learn directly from Bill on SkillShare by following this link.
To find Bill’s blog post for International Nature Journaling Week click here.
Thanks for listening!
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Kristin Link is a fine artist and science illustrator with a focus on the natural world. Currently living off-grid in Alaska, she has nature journaled in some very remote and beautiful places, including on glaciers, in deserts and even on a scientific research vessel. Kristin’s work reflects her desire to connect with place, wherever she is in the world.
Listen to hear more about:
- Kristin’s early influences and experiences with art and science.
- The importance of ‘place’ in Kristin’s work.
- How living off-grid connects her with the land.
- Her experiences as artist-in-residence at various locations, including on a scientific research vessel.
- Cyanotype printing, what it is and how Kristin uses it in her work.
- The spirituality of interacting with nature that is beyond words or explanation.
- How Kristin celebrates ‘place’ through her school workshops, helping young people discover what is beautiful and unique about their own part of the world.
Find out more about Kristin on her website kristinillustration.com and Instagram.
Purchase Kristin’s artwork through her Etsy store.
You can connect with the Boreal Nature Journal Club here.
The book that the Boreal Nature Journal Club have been working through together is by Roseann Hanson and it is called Nature Journaling for a Wild Life.
Thanks for listening!
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Marley Peifer is a nature journal educator and mentor who is also the creator of The Nature Journal show, a weekly YouTube show specifically about nature journaling. In his videos Marley takes us along with him on his adventures, nature journaling outdoors, or in extreme places. He also shares information on his process, techniques, gear and favourite art tools, as well as interviews with other nature journalers. Marley has a lot of experience mentoring others on how to create a good mindset, how to start and keep going, stay motivated, bust barriers and journal more!
Listen to hear more about:
- Marley’s childhood experiences in nature.
- Fearless Friday and how Marley is working to combat the trap of creating ‘pretty pictures’.
- Growth mindset vs fixed mindset and how this relates to nature journaling.
- The importance of appropriate feedback around effort, for reinforcing a growth mindset.
- Marley’s adventures creating The Nature Journal Show.
- Nature journaling generalists vs specialists.
- Marley’s vocabulary of ‘Bread and butter’, ‘Juice’ and ‘Growth Edge’ and what these terms mean.
Find out more about Marley and on his website marleypeifer.com, as well as on Facebook and Instagram.
Marley has a new distance learning program called The Nature Journal Family, which is a month-long nature journaling adventure aimed to deepen your connection with nature and community. You can find out all the details here.
Marley’s video on the Nature Journaling Mindset can be found here.
If you enjoy Marley’s work, you can support him on Patreon.
Thanks for listening!
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Patricia Larenas is an artist and gardener with a passion for nature, and especially for trees. Her tree portraits capture the iconic trees around her in the San Francisco Bay Area. She also investigates alternative art materials through creating her own natural inks and hand-made journals.
When choosing art materials, Patricia’s concern for nature is always in her mind. She prefers to use recycled paper wherever she can, uses high quality 100% cotton paper for finished pieces, and explores alternatives like xuan paper (rice paper) and bamboo.
Patricia loves gardening, seed saving and how seeds can be the ‘carriers of culture’, connecting people to their cultural roots and to each other.
Listen to hear more about:
- The importance of nature connection through books, during Patricia’s childhood.
- The deep connection Patricia has had with trees throughout her life.
- The process of tackling complex tree shapes in a drawing.
- How she makes her own inks from natural materials she has foraged or found herself.
- The process of book binding hand-made sketchbooks.
- Seed saving and ethnography of foods, and how seeds have moved around the world through patterns of migration and colonisation.
To see Patricia’s artwork, follow this link to her Instagram page @plarenas_onpaper. You can find her gardening and seed saving blog at www.urbanartichoke.com.
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Emeritus Professor Roger Kitching AM is a rainforest ecologist with a focus on biology, conservation and management of invertebrate biodiversity. Roger has conducted research studies in places all over the world including Panama, China, France, Réunion, Papua New Guinea and Australia. Having kept field journals for most of his adult life, Roger has unique insights into the importance of journals for capturing details of field expeditions, both for scientific purposes and for personal memories.
Listen to hear more about:
- Roger’s early experiences as a young naturalist in north Yorkshire.
- Roger’s first expeditions during his university days and how he started keeping field journals.
- How he uses his field journals to gather details for longer pieces of writing intended for publication.
- The experience of leading students from Griffith University on field trips to the rainforest of Borneo for 13 years.
- How keeping a field journal connects Roger with field naturalists in history.
During the interview we talked about the book Field Notes on Science and Nature (Edited by Michael Canfield). You can find it here.
Professor Kitching has authored or co-authored five books including: The Butterflies of Australia (Albert Orr and Roger Kitching).
Professor Kitching received the Gregor Johann Mendel Medal for the Advancement of Biological Sciences. Read about it here.
You can find his professional profile on Linkedin.
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Sterre Verbokkem works under the name ‘Illustrator of Wild Things’. She lives off-grid on a mountain in Spain, with her husband and son, surrounded by nature and wildlife. She uses both digital and traditional art techniques to create magical illustrations of the things around her.
Listen to hear more about:
- The important significance of crows in Sterre’s childhood.
- How Sterre started keeping a nature journal.
- The process of creating both digital and hand drawn nature art.
- How limiting materials or colours helps Sterre focus more closely on her subject and create a unified body of work.
- Sterre’s ‘trail camera’…what it is and how she uses it to get a glimpse into the life of the animals around her home.
- How living off-grid allows Sterre and her family to be connected to nature and natural cycles.
- The mindfulness apps created by Sterre and her husband Mark, designed to connect listeners with nature and the relaxation that it can bring.
You can find Sterre online through her website illustratorofwildthings.com and on Instagram @illustratorofwildthings.
Learn more about Sterre’s mindfulness apps at https://wildventures.nl and https://yourwildjourney.com.
Thanks for listening!
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Lee Angold is a botanical and natural science illustrator with an interest in representing nature in a way that encourages others to see the detail and beauty in even simple, everyday subjects. A self-taught artist with an impressive depth of knowledge on colour and watercolour paints, Lee offers many insights into nature art and nature journaling during our conversation.
Listen to hear more about:
- How Lee found her way back to natural science illustration via Engineering school.
- Experimenting with watercolour and how Lee has come to ‘know’ her paints.
- Her different palettes and how she developed her colour choices.
- The one colour that Lee could not live without!
- The Daily Leaf project and how Lee painted every day for an entire year.
- Lee’s conference trip to Australia and the realisations she had on her return.
You can connect with Lee online through her website www.leeangold.com, Instagram @leeangold and Facebook. Lee also has an active Youtube channel where she uploads videos on her painting process, colour explorations, sketchbook tours and live painting sessions.
Thanks for listening!
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Tom is an ecologist, photographer and nature advocate with a particular passion for ornithology. Tom's work takes him to remote and beautiful locations around Australia.
Listen to hear more about:
- Tom’s PhD research looking at bird communities along the floodplains of the Murray River.
- Extinction debt and how land clearing is affecting bird populations in Australia.
- How Tom manages hope and despair as an ecologist who sees the best and the worst aspects of nature and land management.
- The Threatened Species Bake-off and Tom’s culinary creations!
- How nature journaling has brought Tom back to art and creativity in 2020.
Connect with Tom on Instagram @moth_nut (be sure to watch some of his nature walks) and on Twitter @moth_nut.
Learn more about the Threatened Species Bake off here.
Thanks for listening!
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Melinda Nakagawa is a scientist, nature connection mentor and nature journal teacher. Melinda has a background in marine biology and brings a scientist’s eye to her nature journal observations. Her work is all about gently guiding others to connect with the natural world by tapping into curiosity and wonder. In this way, Melinda is able to bridge nature, science, art and heart in her work.
Listen to hear more about:
- Melinda’s early nature experiences on her family flower farm.
- Melina’s ‘spark bird’ and how she came to ornithology.
- How sharing our joy of nature with others can be a gift that just might change a person’s life.
- The international community of nature journalers that is growing due to the changes that have happened globally in 2020.
- The benefits of an online format for nature journaling communities.
- How nature journaling in community can be fun and encouraging.
- How to give feedback that encourages and guides others, without focusing on pretty pictures.
- Leaning into the ‘heart’ while nature journaling and how we can begin to go at nature’s pace.
Find Melinda’s work on her website sparkinnature.com. For more information about Melinda’s nature journaling classes visit this page. Join in the virtual meetings of the Monterey Bay Nature Journal Club.
Thanks for listening!
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Alex Boon is a nature artist and writer from East Devon, UK. His work centres around the wildlife and landscapes of Britain and embodies a deep sense of place. From his first nature experiences as a child, through his development as an artist, to his current projects, this conversation explores Alex’s practice and process as a nature journaler and writer.
Listen to hear more about:
- How journal keeping can preserve detailed memories of place and time.
- The four different types of journal Alex keeps, and why.
- The power of nature writing.
- How Alex brings his meditation practice to nature.
- Lapine Botanica, an art project inspired by the book Watership Down.
Find out more about Alex and his work at alexboonart.com as well as on Instagram @alexboonart. The artworks in the series Lapine Botanica can be purchased as cards, postcards, stickers and art prints from Alex’s Etsy store.
Some of the artists and nature writers that Alex mentioned:
- Lara Gastinger.
- Edith Holden.
- Robert Macfarlane.
Thanks for listening!
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Tania Marien is an independent educator who aims to facilitate connection with nature through her projects. Tania is the host of Talaterra podcast, a show where she investigates the contribution that freelance environmental educators make to lifelong learning in communities. In this episode Tania talks about her days creating opportunities for people to connect with plants through art and creativity.
Listen to hear more about:
- Tania’s first memories of being in nature.
- How Tania started ArtPlantae, a project aimed at helping others understand and connect with plants.
- Using art activities to investigate plants during community events.
- Tania’s favourite art media and drawing techniques.
- The Freelance Condition and Lifelong Learning in Communities project.
Find out more about Tania and her work at www.talaterra.com and www.taniamarien.com as well as on Twitter. Read about ArtPlantae here.
Listen to Talaterra podcast to hear stories of freelance environmental professionals from around the world.
To connect with other freelance environmental professionals, visit The Trailhead, an open forum for independent environmental educators.
Tania has a page on bookshop.org where you can browse her curated list of books on environmental education for adults and children.
Here are several plant books for children (some are reviewed by Tania on ArtPlantae):
Understanding Photosynthesis with Max Axiom, Super Scientist
Why would anyone cut a tree down? - Roberta Murzyński
A Log’s Life - Wendy Pfeffer and Robin Brinkman
Who will plant a tree? - Jerry Pallotta and Tom Leonard
From Seed to Plant - Gail Gibbons
A Seed is Sleepy - Dianna Aston and Sylvia Long
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Julia Bausenhardt is an illustrator and nature enthusiast who teaches art techniques through connection with nature. She uses her sketchbook as a tool for exploration, experimentation and discovery.
Living in the small city of Kassel, Germany, Julia uses her nature journal to explore the magical landscape that was the setting for the stories of The Brothers Grimm.
As a nature journaling teacher, Julia's gentle style and enthusiasm for nature shines through and you will have the feeling that you are learning from a friend.
Listen to hear more about:
- How nature experiences in Julia’s childhood and encouragement from her parents helped foster her love of nature.
- How Julia uses her sketchbook as a tool for exploration, experimentation and discovery.
- How Julia came to love birds and sketching birds.
- The fairy tale landscape where Julia lives, in Kassel, Germany.
- The experience of quitting social media and Julia’s reasons for taking this step.
For more information and to see Julia’s work, take a look at her website juliabausenhardt.com and Youtube channel.
Julia’s blog post Q & A one year after quitting social media:
One year after I quit social media Q & A Part 1.
One year after I quit social media Q & A Part 2.
Julia mentioned Bernd Heinrich, nature writer and biologist who influenced her in her early years. You can find out more here.
The book Bethan mentioned was The Moth Snowstorm: Nature and Joy by Michael McCarthy.
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Robin Carlson is a biologist and natural science illustrator who has a deep interest in documenting how landscapes and ecological communities change over time. In particular, her work focuses on fire ecology and how habitats regenerate after fire. She comes from California, where fire is a part of life and a part of natural systems.
Listen to hear more about:
- How Robin uses 'ecoreportage’ to closely observe her landscape and its changes over time.
- Art and nature journaling as a method of scientific communication.
- Fire ecology and the changing landscape in California.
- Ecological succession after disturbance.
- The difference between a prescribed burn and cultural burn.
- Ways to document change after disturbance in your own nature journal.
For more information and to see Robin’s work, take a look at her website robinleecarlson.com and her blog Wildfire to Wildflowers. Robin is also on Instagram @anthroposcenesketchbook.
Listen to the podcast that was mentioned: How to Save a Planet: Fighting Fire with Fire.
Thanks for listening!
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John Muir Laws (aka Jack) is an artist, naturalist and nature journaling mentor. He has been journaling for decades, has written many books on nature journaling and is working tirelessly to bring nature into the minds and hearts of people across the world. Jack talks about how paying sustained compassionate attention to nature and to the people in our lives, profoundly changes the way we relate to each other and interact in the world.
Listen to hear more about:
- The power of sustained compassionate attention to connect you to others and to the world around you.
- The importance of mentors.
- How your nature journal can be used as a tool for looking inward.
- How wonder and beauty represent the head and the heart of nature journaling for Jack.
- How nature journaling with a posture of gratitude can bring positive changes into your life.
- How the connection and community, found through nature journaling, can act as the antidote to separation and isolation of the modern world.
- How falling in love with the nature through journaling will change the way you interact with the world.
Jack’s website: www.johnmuirlaws.com.
Podcast Episode with Tania Marian from Talaterra describing Jack's history and how he came to nature journaling: John Muir Laws - Community Building Through Nature Journaling.
Video from the educators forum: Gratitude, Nature, Depression, Healing, and Growth.
Link to the book ‘How to Teach Nature Journaling’ by John Muir Laws and Emilie Lygren: How to Teach Nature Journaling.
Nature Journal Club Facebook group: The Nature Journal Club.
Thanks for listening!
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Fiona Gillogly is an inspiring 17-year-old nature journaler who has taken the art of questioning to a new level. Fiona has been described by John Muir Laws as having 'insatiable curiosity' and she uses this to dive into the mysteries of nature around her.
Listen to hear more about:
- How school and family life gave Fiona plenty of experiences in nature as a child.
- How a chance encounter with John Muir Laws sparked a profound friendship and began Fiona’s journey into nature journaling.
- How nature journaling supports and informs Fiona’s other passion: birding.
- How nature journaling has changed the way Fiona interacts at school.
- How young people can be supported to find their voice and make change in the world.
Find out more about Fiona on her website www.fionasongbird.com.
Thanks for listening!
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Jean Mackay is an artist, educator and naturalist. She uses her art practice as a way of capturing and appreciating the small moments in everyday life and teaches that we can all become explorers of the world around us.
Listen to hear more about:
- Jean’s unique educational experience during her university years.
- How she tackles the task of depicting complex subjects in her journal.
- Using simple design principles to put together a page.
- How the experience of listening to the dawn chorus changed her view of birding.
- How keeping a nature journal connects her with the naturalists and explorers from history.
- About her new book ‘The Nature Explorer’s Sketchbok’.
Find out more about Jean on her website www.jeanmackayart.com and on Instagram. You can purchase The Nature Explorer’s Sketchbook from Tumblehome Books and from Amazon.
Thanks for listening!
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Ali Foxon is a geographer and artist living in England. In our conversation, Ali shares how she went from being a climate change researcher and advisor, to being an artist and ‘joy spotter’ when she founded Boggy Doodles. She has created ‘green sketching’, a new way to bring together art and nature in the pursuit of joy.
Listen to hear more about:
- Ali’s history in academic research.
- How sleep deprivation in her son’s first year led her to an epiphany.
- How nature connection can become part of your ‘Mental First Aid Kit’ during times of stress and turmoil.
- Three little known facts about Ali’s life that will make you smile.
- How sensitivity can be a super-power in life and work.
Find out more about Ali and green sketching on her website www.boggydoodles.com and through Instagram. You can also find Ali’s TEDx talk here.
Thanks for listening!
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Elizabeth Mills is a marine biologist, science communicator and creator of the amazing YouTube channel Marine Mumbles. She is passionate about marine life and the wonders that can be found in the ocean. In our conversation she shares many stories of bizarre and beautiful creatures that she has encountered through her work and study.
Listen to hear more about:
- Why there are so many bizarre creatures in marine environments.
- How Elizabeth uses nature journaling to understand marine life.
- World records held by limpets and barnacles.
- How Elizabeth uses science communication skills in her work.
- Ocean optimism and how it can help us protect nature.
Find Elizabeth’s work on her website marinemumbles.com, YouTube channel Marine Mumbles and on Instagram and Twitter.
Thanks for listening!
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Liz Clayton Fuller is a scientific illustrator and nature journaler from Nashville, Tennessee. She has taught field sketching in the Galapagos, created a nature journaling course in collaboration with the Cornell Lab of Ornithology and has had her illustration work published in scientific journals and bird ID guides.
Listen to hear more about:
- How Liz came to love nature through her art.
- The opportunities Liz found through her collaborations with the Bird Academy at the Cornell Lab of Ornithology.
- Liz's adventures teaching field sketching on the Galapagos.
- Birds and wildlife in Nashville.
- The funny celebrity encounter Liz had at her first solo art exhibition!
To find out more about Liz and her work, go to www.lizclaytonfuller.com. To read more and enrol in Liz's online course, click here: Nature Journaling and Field Sketching.
Thanks for listening!
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Tessina De Lille is a biologist and nature artist raising a family in Berlin, Germany.
Listen to hear more about:
- How to juggle family life with a creative career.
- How to 'know' a species before you paint it.
- Finding your personal style as a self-taught artist.
- How to encourage children to connect with nature.
- Tools Tessina uses to create her nature art.
Find Tessina's work on Instagram @speckledhandsart and at Speckled Hands Art on Etsy.
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Amaya Shreeve is a 15-year-old nature journaler who is using her love of nature to inspire others to journal alongside her.
Listen to this episode to find out:
- The story of how home schooling led Amaya and her family to nature journaling.
- How Amaya encourages her siblings and other young children to begin nature journaling.
- About the experience of being in a strong nature journal community and attending the first Wild Wonder nature journaling conference.
- Amaya's plans to continue nature journaling for life.
Follow Amaya's nature journal adventures on Instagram using the handle @no.end.to.the.wonder.
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Amy Kirkbright is an artist from Melbourne, Australia. In this episode, Amy speaks openly about her struggles with anxiety, depression and physical illness and how these challenging times have become a driver for her creativity.
Listen to this episode to find out:
- How creativity can help with anxiety and depression.
- How Amy started the Melbourne Nature Journal Club.
- How to nature journal with an online group.
- About Amy's lifelong project 'The Postcode Diaries'.
Find Amy's work on her website amydiana.co and on Instagram and Facebook.
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In this episode we get to know the Smith family - Bronwyn Smith and her four nature loving girls - who live in the remote Scottish archipelago of Shetland.
Listen if you want to know more about:
- Nature journaling with children
- Homeschooling on the road
- Life and nature in this remote and beautiful place
- Nature journaling with your school class
If your family or school is interested in being part of a nature journal exchange, email me at bethan@journalingwithnature.com.
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Jules Woolford (Drawn Into Nature) spent her professional career in the environmental sector, working on projects that connected people with nature. Now she continues with this work with a focus on nature journaling, helping others see the beauty in the everyday things we see around us.
Listen to hear more about how:
- Everyone can create art (even if you think you can't!).
- Nature journaling is about the journey, not the destination.
- Beauty can be found everywhere when we start to look at the world in a different way.
Find more from Jules on her website www.drawnintonature.com, on Instagram, Twitter and Facebook.
You can find out more about International Nature Journaling Week on the website www.naturejournalingweek.com.
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This episode is an introduction to the podcast and what we will cover in future episodes. It is also a little introduction to nature journaling and how to get started, for people who are new to journaling.
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Journaling With Nature is a podcast for those who want to turn curiosity into wonder, a pencil sketch into a rabbit hole of discovery, a moment of stillness into a life full of joy.