Episode 30: Christiane Weismüller – Nature journaling and creativity
Christiane is an artist, writer and adult educator. She uses a range of artistic forms to explore nature in different ways, finding beauty in simplicity and poetry in the everyday things she experiences in nature. During our conversation, Christiane explains her creative process and the ways that each of these different art forms can be used to capture a different aspect of nature.
Listen to hear more about:
How Christiane’s family fostered her love and connection with nature in childhood.
Simple ways to bring writing into our nature journal.
The way nature writing can capture memories.
Constructing a haiku poem to capture a moment in nature.
The way nature journaling connects with a desire to protect nature.
How art is a way to touch people’s feelings and help them become nature stewards.
Find Christiane’s art, photography and nature writing on her website www.weismueller-photography.com. Christiane writes a blog about nature journaling which you can read here. You can also see pages from Christiane’s nature journal on her Instagram page @christianeweismueller.nature.
Christiane wrote a blog post for International Nature Journaling Week called Nature Journaling as a Source of Creativity.
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