A celebration of birdsong in ink, coloured pencil, and gold leaf ‘Their Golden Song’ celebrates UK birds through rendering their unique songs in gold. The original drawings were produced in pen, coloured pencil, and 23 ct gold leaf. I had been wanting to make a collection like this for quite a while, and have been […]
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(This blog contains affiliate links from which I earn a small commission) In my nature journaling project for 2025, I am following the Japanese calendar of 72 microseasons. This involves splitting the year into 72 little ‘seasons’ of about 5 days each, according to a combination of the lunar and solar calendar. Traditionally, in Japan,
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The beginnings of an idea for this project slipped into my mind many years ago, probably a few years before COVID, when me and my partner were in an antiques shop. One room held old paintings and maps. I walked through the wide entrance to the room, looked around to the right and there beside
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On 8th May 2022, I marched with 200 other people through the Duke of Somerset’s estate, along a forbidden path, to protest the lack of a proper “right to roam” in England and Wales. The walk was led by Guy Shrubsole, author of the excellent book “Who Owns England?” The land we walked is a
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This month (March 2022) I have been working on a large-scale piece for an exhibition focusing on trees in Sidmouth, a town local to me. Many of you may have seen images of this piece coming together on Instagram. This piece, pictured below, is my first attempt at using nature journaling to inform larger work
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