Rose Castle Nature Journal weekend. An exploration of built and natural heritage of this historic location surrounded by beautiful countryside.
Read MoreA completed Chapbook journal showing a mix of nature and historic subjects.
Workshop Season
Okay it is always workshop season to be honest. And whilst you may think you need access to a garden or nature reserve to experience nature …. well who knew - you don’t! Nature is all around. Just look into the gutters, cracks in the pavements, walls, drain pipes, the clouds. There is always something to find and draw. The above sketch was done by one of the attendees in a workshop recently - and we found loads of stuff in a small urban community garden - packed full of interesting nature - from coltsfoot - one of the earliest of the dandelions to flower to bitter dock growing like salad leaves all over the place.
Highlights Tour - Gilsland
The last of the workshops for the Highlights Tour took place on the Threshing Barn in Greencroft this week and was a wonderful way to finish off this season. the artworks created were so lovely and offered such variety too.
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Nature Journaling taking place in Newbrough Town Hall
Highlights tour - Newbrough
Exploring the nature of Newbrough and creating beautiful nature journals. The town hall was the perfect venue for us to base ourselves and with the nearby woodland providing inspiration and resources we were all able to create wonderful little journals.
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Nature Journal in the ancient Town Hall of Newtown
Isle of Wight revisited
This May I spent two days Nature Journalling on the Isle of Wight centred around Newtown Nature reserve with the National Trust and some lovely artists who created wonderful pieces of art and are now on their way creating their own nature journals.
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Everything in place for a day of nature journalling
Barningham Workshop Day
The first of our Highlights Tour workshops saw us in the lovely village of Barningham for a Shortcut to Nature Journalling. We had a wonderful group of artists who created some lovely nature journals full of colour and joy.
Read MoreForest Hall Family Day
It was Family Day at Forest Hall Library today and we all had a lovely time drawing the simplest of things. I provided my unique little concertina nature journals which I have made just for this purpose. These little journals are a great way to get started in nature journalling.
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Nature Journal Overview
There are many ways to create a nature journal and I do have a few different ways to create observations of nature. My main focus is by the use of Moleskine Japanese Accordion Sketchbooks. They are such lovely little books that you can fill and when opened up they re-create the walks I take when observing nature.
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When an osprey flies over you have to stop what you are doing and gawk.
Book 2 - May to August 2017
The second of my nature journals created in 2017. Includes a wonderful week on Arran which seemed to be bursting with wildlife, from the boggy areas to the sea, from grey seals singing and lizards sunning themselves on rocks.
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A hare ran into me today and I held my breath.
BOOK 1 - 1 APRIL TO MAY 2017
The first of my Nature Journeys captured in a Moleskine Concertina sketchbook. A journey that began 1 April 2017. The highlight was a hare running into me.
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