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Episode 49: Timothy M. Joe – Honouring history through art

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.

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Episode 48: Paula Peeters – Facts and Feelings

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.

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Episode 47: Lara Call Gastinger – The Perpetual Nature Journal

Lara is a botanical artist and illustrator from Virginia. Through her work as chief illustrator for the Flora of Virginia Project, and her perpetual nature journal, which she has been keeping for two decades, Lara has developed a deep connection with the native and naturalised plants of her home state.

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Episode 46: Sabine Purkhauser – Houseplant Sketchbook

Sabine comes from an artistic family and has many different creative interests, including sewing, embroidery, vintage fashion and especially, growing and painting houseplants. Sabine shares the story of how she began growing houseplants and capturing them in a nature journal.

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Episode 44: June wrap-up

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.

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Episode 43: Andy Currey – Bushcraft and nature journaling

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.

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Episode 42: Wild Wonder Nature Journaling Conference

June has been a huge month for nature journaling and it’s not over yet! We still have two very exciting events coming up: The Wild Wonder Teacher’s Conference and the Wild Wonder Nature Journaling Conference. In Today’s episode we will revisit conversations I had with some of the artists and educators who will be teaching at these exciting events.

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Episode 41: Isabella Ostovary - Exploring nature in detail

Isabella is a landscape planner and restoration ecologist with a special love for plants. Isabella enjoys exploring details in the world around her. She uses the nature journal as a tool for learning more and deepening her understanding of nature.

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Episode 40: Hani Ristiawan– Keterkaitan antara alam dan kebudayaan

Hani adalah mahasiswa Konservasi Sumber Daya Hutan yang memiliki hasrat untuk berkarya melalui ilustrasi botani dan nature journaling. Hani menggunakan jurnalnya untuk mendokumentasikan ekosistem tropis yang ada di sekitarnya, dan ia sengaja menulis dengan Aksara Jawa, sebagai cara untuk melestarikan warisan budayanya.

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Episode 39: Hani Ristiawan– Interconnection of nature and culture

Hani is a student of Forest Resources Conservation with a passion for botanical illustration and nature journaling. Hani uses his nature journal to document the tropical ecosystems around him and intentionally writes in Javanese script, as a way of preserving his cultural heritage.

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Episode 38: Yvonne Cuaresma – The Climate Journal Project

Yvonne Cuaresma is the founder of The Climate Journal Project, a movement where people are using journaling as a tool to process climate anxiety and ecological grief. Yvonne has created a community where people can process emotions in a supportive space and move from feelings of hopelessness into action.

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Episode 37: Kirsten Carlson – Fathom Antarctica (Part 2)

Kirsten Carlson is an artist and science communicator with a focus on sharing the beauty and wonder of the undersea world. Kirsten's career has given her many opportunities for adventure, including the chance to sketch under the sea ice as an expeditionary artist in Antarctica.

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Episode 36: Kirsten Carlson – Fathom Antarctica (Part 1)

Kirsten Carlson is an artist and science communicator with a focus on sharing the beauty and wonder of the undersea world. Kirsten's career has given her many opportunities for adventure, including the chance to sketch under the sea ice as an expeditionary artist in Antarctica.

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Episode 35: Tim Pond – Drawing and sketching animals

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.

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Episode 34: Emilie Lygren - Interweaving science and poetry

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.

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