Episode 47: Lara Call Gastinger – The Perpetual Nature Journal
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.
Episode 46: Sabine Purkhauser – Houseplant Sketchbook
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.
Episode 45: Candace Rose Rardon – Visual storytelling and the ‘travel mindset’
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.
Episode 44: June wrap-up
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.
Episode 43: Andy Currey – Bushcraft and nature journaling
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.
Episode 42: Wild Wonder Nature Journaling Conference
June has been a huge month for nature journaling and it’s not over yet! We still have two very exciting events coming up: The Wild Wonder Teacher’s Conference and the Wild Wonder Nature Journaling Conference. In Today’s episode we will revisit conversations I had with some of the artists and educators who will be teaching at these exciting events.
Episode 41: Isabella Ostovary - Exploring nature in detail
Isabella is a landscape planner and restoration ecologist with a special love for plants. Isabella enjoys exploring details in the world around her. She uses the nature journal as a tool for learning more and deepening her understanding of nature.
Episode 40: Hani Ristiawan– Keterkaitan antara alam dan kebudayaan
Hani adalah mahasiswa Konservasi Sumber Daya Hutan yang memiliki hasrat untuk berkarya melalui ilustrasi botani dan nature journaling. Hani menggunakan jurnalnya untuk mendokumentasikan ekosistem tropis yang ada di sekitarnya, dan ia sengaja menulis dengan Aksara Jawa, sebagai cara untuk melestarikan warisan budayanya.
Episode 39: Hani Ristiawan– Interconnection of nature and culture
Hani is a student of Forest Resources Conservation with a passion for botanical illustration and nature journaling. Hani uses his nature journal to document the tropical ecosystems around him and intentionally writes in Javanese script, as a way of preserving his cultural heritage.
Episode 38: Yvonne Cuaresma – The Climate Journal Project
Yvonne Cuaresma is the founder of The Climate Journal Project, a movement where people are using journaling as a tool to process climate anxiety and ecological grief. Yvonne has created a community where people can process emotions in a supportive space and move from feelings of hopelessness into action.
Episode 37: Kirsten Carlson – Fathom Antarctica (Part 2)
Kirsten Carlson is an artist and science communicator with a focus on sharing the beauty and wonder of the undersea world. Kirsten's career has given her many opportunities for adventure, including the chance to sketch under the sea ice as an expeditionary artist in Antarctica.
Episode 36: Kirsten Carlson – Fathom Antarctica (Part 1)
Kirsten Carlson is an artist and science communicator with a focus on sharing the beauty and wonder of the undersea world. Kirsten's career has given her many opportunities for adventure, including the chance to sketch under the sea ice as an expeditionary artist in Antarctica.
Episode 35: Tim Pond – Drawing and sketching animals
Tim Pond is an educator, author, illustrator and naturalist with a passion for drawing wildlife. He has a unique way of quickly capturing a subject with dynamic lines and shading. Tim’s book, The Field Guide to Drawing and Sketching Animals, brings science and art together to give the reader the knowledge and skills needed to create animal drawings full of life and movement.
Episode 34: Emilie Lygren - Interweaving science and poetry
Emilie is an educator, facilitator and poet, whose work reflects a deep commitment to creating a more connected world. She finds joy in exploring the interplay between scientific thinking and poetry and values how each of these ways of thinking can inform the other.
Episode 33: Danny Gregory – Calming the inner critic and establishing a creative habit
Danny is an artist, author and co-founder of Sketchbook Skool, an online creative hub filled with courses, workshops and a thriving creative community. Danny's work involves helping people establish a creative habit and calm their inner critic.
Episode 32: Roseann Hanson – Nature Journaling for a Wild Life
Roseann is a naturalist, artist, and explorer who has been keeping science-based nature journals for 40 years. Roseann teaches nature writing and nature journaling, both online and in the field, and is the author of the book 'Nature Journaling for a Wild Life'.
Episode 31: Laura Bertucci - My private garden
Laura Bertucci has a passion for houseplants and has created a small jungle inside her home. She now combines her interest in plants with a love of drawing and painting, a combination which provides a calm sanctuary among the stressors of life.
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.
Episode 29: Rebecca Roberts – EnviroVisuals and the power of art
Rebecca Roberts is the founder of EnviroVisuals. Her work in the field of graphic recording helps make sustainability information understandable and accessible to everyone.
Episode 28: Marina Cerra – Reconnection with art and nature
Marina Cerra is an engineer by day and botanical artist by night, fitting art and nature connection into spare moments wherever she can find them, among the busyness of family life.