Journaling With Nature (Bethan Burton)

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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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:

Facebook

Instagram

LinkedIn

Twitter

YouTube

You can read more about Mark’s ranger traineeship in this interview with the Sussex Wildlife Trust.

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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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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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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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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. 

I would love to have you follow along as I create more videos on the Journaling With Nature YouTube Channel. You can subscribe to the channel here. 

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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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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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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. 

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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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.

You will notice that Spark has three membership levels, Discovery, Breakthrough and Danny’s Circle. The free trial will allow you to access either the Discovery or the Breakthrough level of Spark, for one week. Click the Buy Now button and you will see that you can sign up and access Spark for free. 

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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.

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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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:

1. Describing the indescribable
2. Playing with words
3. Exploring nature through poetry
4. Storytelling with nature
5. Listening attentively
6. Sensing the world around us
7. 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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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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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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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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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.

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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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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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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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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. 

Sign up to Victoria’s mailing list to receive a 10% discount on her artwork, an art catalogue and more!

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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.

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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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. 

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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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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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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.

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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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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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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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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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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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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.

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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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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:

1. Germination and emergence
2. Growth and development
3. Metamorphosis and transformation
4. Reproduction and replication
5. Fruiting and dispersal
6. Decay and decomposition
7. 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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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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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. 

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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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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:

https://wildniswind.de/

• Nature Journaling Deutschland website
• 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
• Wildniswind

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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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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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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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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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 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.

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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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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.

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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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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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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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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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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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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:

1. 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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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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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.

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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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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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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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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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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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