Come into my art studio as I share my process in creating my two art collections - Starling Mumurations and Rivers Run Through Us. In this episode I share:
What looking back at my artwork revealed
How my relationship with nature Life as a constant process of becoming and happening - life, death, rebirth
How I made the starling murmuration artworks
Why health struggles led to my fascination with the river and water
How I make the river artworks in collaboration WITH the river
What I’m interested in making next
Bromham Open Studios on 4 & 11 May 2025
Mentioned in the podcast
Starling Song by Kitty Macfarlane
Birdsong Perpetual Field by Ella Clocksin
Book: Sensuous Knowledge by Minna salami
Book: If Women Rose Rooted by Sharon Blackie
Artworks
Let the sky take hold of your breath
Inside we dance | Three mud spill paintings
Be wild | River water and mud painting
When she floods I | Ripple dip pen and ink line drawing
🌲⭐ Join The Wild Enchantment Club and take part in the Dusk Chorus Painting Workshop for FREE
The Wild Enchantment Club is for fiercely tender-hearted wonder-seekers ready to step outside and nurture a devotional practice of seasonal wild enchantment.
Rooted in beauty, science, art, magic and awe, this is a space where love for our messy, beautiful universe is seen as an act of gentle resistance.
Upgrade to a paid subscription for £7.50 a month (or £75 for the year) and join the club and get a:
🌟 Monthly wonder quest - exploratory topic and quest to get you outside and noticing your local web of life with child-like curiosity and playful creativity as a regular practice. Quests are simple and achievable evidence-based nature connection exercises. One month you may track the opening of a blossom, the next you'll get to know the song of a local bird.
🎙️ Monthly Your Wildly Enchanted Life private podcast episode - a deep dive into the monthly exploratory topic and quest that weaves together science, art, folklore and rewilding the soul so you see the most ordinary moments in nature as magically extraordinary.
FREE Dusk Chorus Painting Workshop!
As a special gift this month, I’m inviting Club members to join me and other nature-lovers in a dusk chorus workshop where we’ll be painting birdsong together. It will be held at 7.30-8.15pm on Wednesday 30 April 2025. During the workshop you will:
Learn about how you are being co-created with bird song
Find out the fascinating way birds sing and learn their song
Create a map of your local birdsong using wild journalling techniques
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