Journaling With Nature

Sabrina is an interpreter, educator, and makeup enthusiast. She uses makeup to explore the natural world, capturing the essence of plants and animals in her choice of colour, shape and detail.Listen to hear more about:How Sabrina came to environmental education and interpretation.The power of interpretation to bring environmental issues alive by relating them to people’s everyday lives.Sabrina’s love of makeup and how she started using makeup to capture and communicate about the natural world.Sabrina’s process for creating a nature inspired makeup look, using colour, shape and fine details.How Sabrina chooses her subjects for makeup looks.Challenging the stereotypes of who can spend time in nature!To see Sabrina’s incredible, nature inspired makeup looks, visit her Instagram page @a.stroke.of.nature.-----------------Sign-up for Journaling With Nature's Newsletter to receive news and updates as well as the Nature Journaling Inspiration List each month! You can support Journaling With Nature Podcast on Patreon, Your contribution is deeply appreciated. Thanks for listening!

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. ----------------- Sign-up for Journaling With Nature's Newsletter to receive news and updates as well as the Nature Journaling Inspiration List each month! You can support Journaling With Nature Podcast on Patreon, Your contribution is deeply appreciated. Thanks for listening!

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/. -----------------Sign-up for Journaling With Nature's Newsletter to receive news and updates as well as the Nature Journaling Inspiration List each month! You can support Journaling With Nature Podcast on Patreon, Your contribution is deeply appreciated. Thanks for listening!

Tim is an artist from Alabama who has a strong connection with the history and stories held within the landscape around him. Through art, Tim pays respect to the landscape and the man-made structures within it, honouring the past and preserving this on canvas for the future.Tim gives workshops on art and nature journaling and brings warmth and humour to his classes, encouraging and supporting his students through every step in the creative process.  Listen to hear more about:Tim’s beginnings as an artist and his early artistic influences.The Joe Farm and their bird and nature tours.Tim’s favourite subjects to paint and his advice for finding your own creative voice.How art can honour history.How Tim uses different media in his art. Colour and colour mixing.  Find Tim online at timothymjoe.com, as well as on Instagram and Facebook. Visit the website of The Joe Farm, where the family does bird and nature tours, sharing the wildlife of their 200 acre property. Listen out for part two of this conversation with Tim! -----------------Sign-up for Journaling With Nature's Newsletter to receive news and updates as well as the Nature Journaling Inspiration List each month! You can support Journaling With Nature Podcast on Patreon, Your contribution is deeply appreciated. Thanks for listening!

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.-----------------Sign-up for Journaling With Nature's Newsletter to receive news and updates as well as the Nature Journaling Inspiration List each month! You can support Journaling With Nature Podcast on Patreon, Your contribution is deeply appreciated. Thanks for listening!  

Lara is a botanical artist and illustrator from Virginia. Through her work as chief illustrator for the Flora of Virginia Project, and her perpetual nature journal, which she has been keeping for two decades, Lara has developed a deep connection with the native and naturalised plants of her home state.Listen to hear more about:Lara’s botanical illustration work through the Flora of Virginia Project.The concept of the perpetual nature journal and how it began.Ways for beginners to overcome fear of the blank page.Lara’s attraction to the ‘story’ behind a plant and the change and decay that happens as plants age. Lara’s favourite colours and how she uses colour in her perpetual journal.How to listen to nature and be in dialogue with the natural world while you are journaling. How keeping a perpetual nature journal can become a life-long project connecting you with your nearby nature.Find Lara on her website, www.laracallgastinger.com, as well as on Instagram @laragastinger.A wonderful way to continue to learn from Lara and support her work, is through Patreon. You can find Lara on patreon here: www.patreon.com/laragastinger.If you keep a perpetual nature journal, or would like to see other amazing perpetual journals, use the hashtag #lgperpetualjournal on Instagram. -----------------Sign-up for Journaling With Nature's Newsletter to receive news and updates as well as the Nature Journaling Inspiration List each month! You can support Journaling With Nature Podcast on Patreon, Your contribution is deeply appreciated. Thanks for listening!

Sabine comes from an artistic family and has many different creative interests, including sewing, embroidery, vintage fashion and especially, growing and painting houseplants. Sabine shares the story of how she began growing houseplants and capturing them in a nature journal.Listen to hear more about:How Sabine started collecting houseplants.The darker side of the houseplant industry.Sabine’s favourite media for capturing houseplants in her sketchbook.Thoughts on painting living, growing, moving subjects.What nature looks like where Sabine lives, in Switzerland.The times when you might need glittery paint as a houseplant artist!Making online connections through plants and art.Livestreaming on the platform Twitch.Find Sabine on Instagram using this link - https://www.instagram.com/houseplant.sketchbookSabine’s sewing blog can be found here - https://petersilieundco.com/Watch Sabine painting on Twitch - https://www.twitch.tv/sabineplantqueenHere are two books recommended by Sabine, for those interested in plants:Kew Gardens Rare Plants: The Story of 40 of the World's Most Unusual and Endangered PlantsThe Plants Messiahs - Carlos MagdalenaSome interesting articles recommended by Sabine:Ten ways to make your houseplant addiction more sustainable: https://www.janeperrone.com/blog/2021/5/5/ten-ways-to-make-your-houseplant-addiction-more-sustainableMoney grows on trees: Into the world of super rare houseplants: https://thelatch.com.au/money-grows-on-trees-into-the-world-of-super-rare-houseplants/Who’s paying $5,000 for one houseplant? More people than you’d think: https://www.vice.com/en/article/pkyw5v/most-rare-and-expensive-houseplants-variegatedThe dark side of the houseplant boom: https://www.theatlantic.com/culture/archive/2021/04/dark-side-houseplant-boom-nature-empathy/618638/Rare plants: The impact of seeking the desirable: https://www.janeperrone.com/blog/2020/4/28/6amavoaxaon1paxmiczutsh6haqacoThe case of the purloined orchid: https://www.sarasotamagazine.com/news-and-profiles/2005/03/the-case-of-the-purloined-orchid -----------------Sign-up for Journaling With Nature's Newsletter to receive news and updates as well as the Nature Journaling Inspiration List each month! You can support Journaling With Nature Podcast on Patreon, Your contribution is deeply appreciated. Thanks for listening!

Candace Rose Rardon is a writer, illustrator and visual storyteller. As a travel writer, Candace spent more than a decade living abroad, immersed in the culture of each country she would visit. Candace found her niche when she started using a sketchbook to visually document her travels. Listen to hear more about:How art and creativity were a natural part of Candace’s childhood.How Candace found her way into a career in travel writing.The ‘travel mindset’ and how we can live from a place of wonder, even in our own backyards.The story of how Candace began combining her travel writing with sketchbook art.How sketching on location is a portal to connection with others.How Candace founded the global sketching movement “Moment Sketchers”.How the ‘journey’ of a creative project can bring the same excitement and thrill that travel brings.Find out more about Candace through her website: candaceroserardon.com and on Instagram.Candace talked about writing sleep stories for the app Calm. Find out more about Calm here: www.calm.com.During the interview, Candace mentioned a quote by Flaubert. Here is the quote: “Be regular and orderly in your life, so that you may be violent and original in your work.”― Gustave Flaubert-----------------Sign-up for Journaling With Nature's Newsletter to receive news and updates as well as the Nature Journaling Inspiration List each month! You can support Journaling With Nature Podcast on Patreon, Your contribution is deeply appreciated. Thanks for listening!

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. -----------------Sign-up for Journaling With Nature's Newsletter to receive news and updates as well as the Nature Journaling Inspiration List each month! You can support Journaling With Nature Podcast on Patreon, Your contribution is deeply appreciated. Thanks for listening!

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. -----------------Sign-up for Journaling With Nature's Newsletter to receive news and updates as well as the Nature Journaling Inspiration List each month! You can support Journaling With Nature Podcast on Patreon, Your contribution is deeply appreciated. Thanks for listening!