Journaling With Nature

Craig is an artist and scientific illustrator from Tasmania. After a career with positions ranging from feeding Tasmanian devils in a wildlife park, illustrating spider anatomy, and identifying fossil specimens of Australian megafauna, Craig has found his niche painting birds on vintage book pages.

Listen to hear more about:

• What nature looks like where Craig lives in Launceston, Tasmania. 
• The many and varied jobs that Craig has had during his career.
• Encounters with Tasmanian wildlife.
• How Craig started working in the field of scientific illustration, and specifically, using a microscope to document the minute details of spider anatomy.
• Art as solace during difficult times.
• Building community online.
• Fining a niche.
• Painting birds on vintage book pages.
• Why bird art resonates with so many people.

To learn more about Craig, and to see his detailed bird art on vintage book pages, visit https://www.cswilliamsart.com. You can also find his work on Instagram @cswilliamsart. 

Have you ever painted on book pages or another unique surface? Leave a comment on the Journaling With Nature Podcast page.

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Robin is a biologist, natural science illustrator and author with a special interest in studying ecological change over time. Her new book,The Cold Canyon Fire Journals, tells the story of a changing landscape after fire.

Listen to hear more about:

• Robin’s relationship with Cold Canyon, past and present.
• How her project has shaped the way she thinks about fire.
• The incredible natural history stories that Robin uncovered through her research.
• The role colour plays in the landscape after fire.
• How Robin’s nature journal pages helped her craft the narrative for the book.
• The co-existence of mind and heart in science.  
   

Discover more about Robin on her website and Instagram page. You can also find a copy of Robin’s book, The Cold Canyon Fire Journals, on her website.

If you would like to purchase a video pass to watch classes from the Wild Wonder Nature Journaling Conference, you can do so here.

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We are celebrating 100 episodes of the Journaling With Nature podcast! For this milestone episode Beth Kelley Gillogly turns the microphone around and interviews Bethan about her history, nature journaling with her son and the story behind starting the podcast.

Listen to hear more about:

• Pivotal nature experiences in my early life.
• How I came to nature journaling.
• My experience and love of colour.
• How my nature journaling has changed over time.
• The joy of journaling close to home.
• Lessons I’ve learned from nature journaling with my child.
• Growth vs fixed mindset.
• The story behind the Journaling With Nature podcast.
   

If you would like to support the podcast through Patreon and access the bonus recording you can click this link: Journaling With Nature Podcast on Patreon.

To learn more about the Wild Wonder Nature Journaling Conference and register click this link: Wild Wonder 2022.

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Sandy is an artist, instructor and writer exploring the world through her sketchbook. Sandy uses field sketching to learn about her environment, coming to know the landscape and its inhabitants more deeply through creativity and mindful observation.

Listen to hear more about:

• Sandy’s first memories of nature and art.
• The process of ‘bushwhacking’ a path to find her professional career.
• Sandy’s difficulty in owning the label of “artist” and the beautiful story of how she came to see herself as she truly is.
• Exploring anxieties through a sketchbook.
• Sandy’s favourite art tools.
• How Sandy brings ‘purposeful play’ into her personal practice and her classes.
• Field Sketching: A Year of Mindfulness.
• The importance of birds in Sandy’s work and the summer-long ‘spark experience’ that got her hooked on birding.

Find out more about Sandy and her work at https://www.sandymcdermott.com. You can also find Sandy on Instagram and Facebook. 

To learn more about Sandy’s year-long course, Field Sketching: A Year of Mindfulness, you can email her at [email protected] or put your name on the priority list here.

The Hand Book Paper Co. Travelogue watercolor journal that Sandy talked about can be found here.

You can find the book Living On the Wind by Scott Weidensaul here. 

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Agnes is an artist, science communicator and creator ofWe Are Stardust. Her artwork inspires a connection with the more-than-human world and her guided online adventures help others tune into nature by exploring both the outer and inner landscapes.

Listen to hear more about:

• The winding professional path that has led Agnes to her freelance career.
• How Agnes started We Are Stardust.
• How nature journaling has deepened her relationship with birds.
• Listening to the body and the heart when they remind us to take time in nature.
• Ways to create a full and nourished life.
• Rewild Your Soul: A year of seasonal adventures.
• Opening ourselves to joy and also to vulnerability when we love nature.
• Creating boundaries and habits to protect and prioritise our time in nature.
   

Explore Agnes’ website https://www.wearestardust.uk and Instagram page @wearestardust. You can learn more about the program Rewild Your Soul: A year of seasonal adventures by clicking this link: https://www.wearestardust.uk/pages/adventures

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Alma is a naturalist, artist, and educator. She creates a joyful and connected life through her love of nature walking, art making and nature journaling. With a simple field kit and an observant eye, Alma is able to sketch on-the-go wherever she finds herself.

Listen to hear more about:

• Alma’s early nature experiences growing up on the island of Oahu.
• Discovering nature journaling through the books of Clare Walker Leslie.
• The experiences of her students when Alma brought the practice of nature journaling to her class.
• Alma’s simple kit for nature journaling on-the-go.
• Alma’s growth and development as an artist.
• The healing benefits of nature and nature journaling.
• Finding confidence and talking kindly to our inner critic.
• The emotional experience of being in nature.
• Moving through ecological grief into action.
• Beach Naturalist training through the Seattle Aquarium.

Find out about Alma on her website www.awildbraid.com.

Follow Alma’s creative adventures through A Wild Braid Nature Journal and sign up to receive Alma’s newsletter here.

You can find Alma on Instagram @alma.walks.in.nature.

Alma mentioned the names of several content creators who inspire her on Instagram. You can find their accounts here:

@browngirloutdoorworld

@hood__naturalist

@blackforager

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Ali Foxon, author and founder of the green sketching movement, returns to the podcast to speak about her new book: The Green Sketching Handbook. Ali gently guides others to connect with joy and creativity in the natural world.

Listen to hear more about:

• Green sketching and why Ali created this new genre of creativity in nature.
• The three guiding principles of green sketching.
• Why nature and creativity are such a beneficial combination.
• The process of writing her book during a pandemic.
• How Ali eases people through their fears about making art.
• How sketching in nature can create an embodied connection between you and natural world. 
• How paying attention to colour can be a way of connecting with place.
• Some challenges that you might come across when building a sketching habit and how to overcome them.
• How gratitude can be an antidote to anxiety.
• The intertwining of joy, gratitude and love which underpins our connection with nature.

Learn more about Ali and her work at www.alifoxon.com.

Purchase a copy of The Green Sketching Handbook:

Australia (pre-order for 23rd July release)

International

German edition

United Kingdom

You can listen to our previous podcast conversation here: Episode 9 – Green sketching and the pursuit of joy.

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Everyone nature journals for different reasons. By taking time to consider what we value most we can begin to notice whether our journal pages reflect what is important to us. 

Today’s podcast is a solo show discussing something that came up at Jean Mackay’s workshop during International Nature Journaling Week 2022. Jean’s workshop was called Values Added and prompted us to reflect on what we value and whether we are reflecting these values on our journal pages. 

You can watch Jean Mackay’s workshop here: Values Added.

Please leave your thoughts on ideas on this topic under the episode post on the Journaling With Nature website here: What do you value?

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