Writing: a selection of my work
Art from the Earth
Creating Connections
Creating Connections
Art from the Earth: Wild Clay Harvesting, Processing and Meaning Making
The Journal of Applied Arts in Health:
Special Environmental Edition
This article describes the development of an outdoor art therapy system of harvesting, processing and firing hand-collected clay direct from the earth. It centres on my experience of offering wild clay art making to students on an alternative education farm.
The article contextualises wild clay art through an archaeological and anthropological perspective.
Creating Connections
Creating Connections
Creating Connections
Chapter contribution:
Creating connections: Introducing environmental arts therapy into London’s green spaces
Environmental arts therapy encourages human connection to nature, to others and between the internal and external world through myth, metaphor and art-making.
In my chapter this process is contextualised within the wider ecology of an urban clientele’s relationship to the natural world.
Consideration is given to the synthesis of the theoretical models of Environmental Arts Therapy and Five Ways to Wellbeing which underpin the Community Outdoor Art Therapy Service (COATS).
Natural Hysteria
Creating Connections
The Namesake Fern that walks up Mountains
Natural Hysteria
Coping with Nature's destruction,
Poems of a rhyming couplet construction
Natural Hysteria emerged as a response to the summer of 2022 heatwave. The fourteen illustrated poems started as a way to process my eco-anxiety and rage.
Whilst written in a lighthearted style, the poems deal with the political, human and ecological dilemmas we face on a daily basis.
A challenging read that does not shy away from our own complicity.
A third of the sale profits are donated to Client Earth. ClientEarth | ClientEarth
The Namesake Fern that walks up Mountains
The Namesake Fern that walks up Mountains
What's in a Name?
A hike beyond Amalfi to the Valle de Ferriere Nature Reserve leads to a revelatory discovery.
Rewilding Social Impact Report
My Deer Clear Blog was referenced in Heal Somerset's Social Impact Report.
Our Sharing Nature
Our Sharing Nature
Connecting to Each Other Through the Natural World
Forthcoming Book
Our Sharing Nature (OSN) explores the social, mental and emotional benefits of engaging with each other whilst in nature. OSN was inspired by my facilitation of outdoor art therapy but evolved through my experience of volunteering with the land management team at Heal Somerset.
OSN draws upon neuroscience, ecopsychology and evolutionary psychology to explain why we feel the way we do when we are in nature together.
It features interviews with nature projects throughout the country, exploring how connections and relationships have been fostered whilst being in nature.