Episode 149: Leandra Taylor – Finding your personal summit
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.
Episode 148: Colour hunt
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.
Episode 147: Lily Urmann – Biomimicry and place-based learning
Lily is an educator specialising in the field of biomimicry. Through curiosity and attention, joy and humour, Lily guides others to see the wonders of nature around us.
Episode 146: Journal for healing
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.
Episode 145: Jennifer Duval-Smith – Nature, Creativity and Connection
After a career in the corporate world, Jennifer underwent a significant life transformation by transitioning to a career as a botanical artist and educator. This shift aligned with her values around nature, creativity, and connection.
Episode 144: Daily weather log
Keeping track of the weather can help us be more aware of, and connected with, our surroundings. Let’s create a daily weather log for one week (or longer), noting down variables relevant to our area, like precipitation, temperature, humidity, and wind speed.
Episode 143: Desmond Bovey – Coming home to the landscape
After spending 30 years in France, artist Desmond Bovey returned to New Zealand and the landscape of his childhood. With attention and curiosity, Desmond used sketching nature as a way to truly come home.
Episode 142: Sketch your pet
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.
Episode 141: Jenni Meek – The architecture of nature
Jenni is an artist from Samford, Queensland. She enjoys exploring the architecture of nature by playing with shapes and forms in her cyanotypes and acrylic paintings.
Episode 140: Finish a project
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.
Episode 139: Sarah Hannis – An illustrator’s journey
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.
Episode 138: Colours of the season
Colours change throughout the year and sometimes we notice that colours in nature come to represent a particular season. What are the colours that you notice right now that represent this time of year where you live? How could you capture these colours in your nature journal?
Episode 137: Kate Wall – Your garden as a living artwork
Kate is a Brisbane-based garden consultant, author and edible weeds expert. She teaches a style of gardening that works in harmony with nature, creating fertile, flourishing spaces that are a haven for wildlife.
Episode 136: Find Yourself in the Landscape
Sketching landscapes in your nature journal can help you understand an ecosystem, as well as create your own sense of place and belonging. Get to know your landscape by exploring it on the pages of your nature journal using both words and pictures.
Episode 135: Marley Peifer – Embodying our nature connection
In this conversation, Marley talks about some deep questions that have been arising for him recently, on ways to move towards an embodied relationship with nature.
Episode 134: Beauty in decay
In this episode I reflect on the beauty that can be found in the process of decay. I invite you to look for examples of change, aging, decomposition, and decay in nature around you. This process is essential and beautiful. How could you capture this in your journal?
Episode 133: Kelly Carmody – Painted Trails Art
Kelly explores her love of nature through many different creative outlets, including nature journaling, photography, and embroidery. Kelly uses creativity as a way to understand and connect with the landscapes of her local area.
Episode 132: Nature and grief
In this episode I reflect on the ways that nature supported me through the loss of my father. Have you experienced something similar in your own life? Have there been times when you have turned to nature for comfort through grief or loss?
Episode 131: Unfolding stories
Sometimes we go outside with the intention to journal about a certain subject, and then nature shares a different story that needs to be told. When you go outside, be open to following the stories that unfold around you and capturing them in your journal.
Episode 130: Elizabeth Mills – Laughing and learning
Elizabeth is a freelance marine biologist and science communicator. Through her funny and joyful style, she helps others connect with the wonders of the ocean.