Anna Laurent on botanical art through history and photographing seeds
In this episode, Anna Laurent is my guest talking about her work at the intersection of science and art, researching botanical art through history and photographing seeds. She is passionate about 'understanding plants from the plant's perspective and plants from people's perspective.' She traveled the world, researching the visual history of plant depiction, as well as collecting specimens for 'Dispersal', a series of photographs, portraits, exploring the form and function of seed dispersal.
10 Jul 2020
Mugdha Sapte on holistic healing, ayurveda, and rituals
In this episode, Mugdha talks about an urge to connect to nature in a more sensory manner: smelling things, touching things and feel them that is different from simply walking in the park and breathing in fresh air. We also talk about Ayurveda, holistic healing and what ritual means to us.
26 Jun 2020
Ali Mackie on painting, joy and the art of bright
In this new episode, I’m talking to Ali Mackie, who is, a painter and mixed media artist based in the Chilterns in the UK. We talk about wide ranging subjects, encompassing all what it entails to live and work as an artist, including motherhood. Ali talks about her work and inspiration in great detail. Nature portrayed with bright colours plays an essential role in her paintings, collages and mixed media work. She comes from an interior design background, which, she tells me more about in our conversation, and how she draws on those experiences in her current work, both as a small business owner and as an artist.
20 Jun 2020
Bex Partridge - Everlastings, An ode to the art of drying flowers
In this episode I talked to Bex Partridge, a floral artist who you may have come across on instagram as @botanical_tales. She recently published her first book: Everlastings. In this interview she talks about her creative practice in great detail, about growing, foraging and drying flowers. I asked her what the word everlastings meant to her. What she responded to that question is one of the reasons what makes this episode a great one to listen to! Later we talked about raising nature loving children, the joy and beauty in nature, the perpetual learning and a few words about weeds.
5 Apr 2020
How can I be of service through my creative practice?
Dialogues with Nature podcast is back.
In this episode I’m pondering about where I am now, where we are all, the changes I’m going through and what we are experiencing at a global scale. I’m talking a lot about hope, how nature and a creative practice can be a solace, especially in our current times. Thinking through how creative work can continue in our dynamic times, how I could nurture more resilience through my practice and what possible ways there are moving forward.
19 Dec 2019
Eleanor Cheetham on independent publishing and seasonal living
In this episode I'm in a conversation with Eleanor talking about her writing work and journey through Creative Countryside to Folk+ Field, publishing a magazine, and the inception of the seasonal community that has naturally evolved over time, through realising the value of building in-person connections.
4 Dec 2019
Monica Griesbaum on natural tea growing in Scotland and making tea
All about natural tea growing and tea making with traditional techniques. In this episode I'm talking to Monica Griesbaum from Windy Hollow Tea Farm in Scotland who tells us all about how she lives and works in dialogue with nature through her relationship with tea and natural farming.
14 Nov 2019
Tiffany Francis on nature writing and its role in our current ecological times
I’m talking to Tiffany Francis in this episode who is a nature writer and illustrator. Her third book Dark Skies was published this autumn with Bloomsbury. We discuss her published books and how they came about. Tiffany talks about her journey to nature writing, current projects and about a transition to be more in control within her own creative practice. We share our passion for nature and the seasonal cycles. We also talk about the contemporary nature writing scene and how it relates to the current environmental crisis we face.
8 Nov 2019
Catalina Christensen on collecting pigments and painting - working with the memories of landscape
In this episode I’m talking to Catalina Christensen who is an inspiring painter and pigment collector. Her work centres around a personal connection to landscape through the colours she finds and extracts from nature in the places she visits.
5 Nov 2019
My story
The 1st solo episode is with me, where I tell you my story and how I arrived at the place where I am now. My life and work are closely intertwined. Here, I talk about some of the contributing events in my upbringing, education and working life that had an impact in my current creative practice.
29 Oct 2019
Introduction
What this is all about. An introduction to Dialogues with Nature, a new podcast for the curious kind who seek wonder in the often overlooked details of nature, interested in creative practices and appreciate a slow pace.
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