Writing: a selection of my work
Art from the Earth
Creating Connections
Art from the Earth
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.
Natural Hysteria
Creating Connections
Art from the Earth
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
Creating Connections
Creating Connections
The Namesake Fern that walks up Mountains
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).
The Namesake Fern that walks up Mountains
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.
Our Sharing Nature
The Namesake Fern that walks up Mountains
Our Sharing Nature
Our Sharing Nature
Connecting to Each Other through the Natural World
Forthcoming Book
Most of us have enjoyed being out in nature with others: excitedly looking up together at circling birds, gazing in awe together at sweeping mountains or peacefully walking together in companionable silence through a wooded valley.
Our Sharing Nature explores the social and emotional benefits of being in nature together, the neuroscience behind the experience, and how its evolution ensured our survival within the natural world. It features interviews with nature-based groups throughout the country who foster special connections between people whilst being in nature.