Dialogues with Nature
12 episodes - English - Latest episode: over 3 years ago - ★★★★★ - 4 ratingsConversations with creative practitioners about how we live, learn and work in dialogue with nature.
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Anna Laurent on botanical art through history and photographing seeds
September 04, 2020 19:19 - 44 minutes - 40.6 MBIn 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' Anna is an award-winning flora-focused writer, photographer, and artist. She traveled the world, researching the visual history of plant depiction, as well as collecting specimens for 'Dispersal', a s...
Mugdha Sapte on holistic healing, ayurveda, and rituals
July 10, 2020 11:23 - 1 hour - 73.2 MB___________ ‘Trying to connect to nature itself is healing in a way, because it kind of gets you out of your own, I guess, worries, and thoughts and problems in your own mind and asks you to observe something.’ 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 ri...
Ali Mackie on painting, joy and the art of bright
June 26, 2020 19:28 - 1 hour - 66.6 MB_________ 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 and how that experience influenced and informed our artistic journeys and how in its own magical way has given some weight to what we do now and, what we pursue as artists. We also talk about Ali's work in great detail. Her main s...
Bex Partridge - Everlastings, An ode to the art of drying flowers
June 20, 2020 08:12 - 1 hour - 55.9 MB_________ An ode to the art of drying flowers. In the latest episode here, available today, 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: all aspects of 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 re...
How can I be of service through my creative practice?
April 05, 2020 08:24 - 40 minutes - 37.1 MB________ As we find ourselves in the midst of these uncertain and disorienting times, I keep asking myself this question that probably many of you ask yourselves, too: - How can I possibly be of service with what I have? 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 ...
Eleanor Cheetham on independent publishing and seasonal living
December 19, 2019 09:11 - 58 minutes - 54 MB:: Dialogues with Nature Network has launched and is currently open for new members to join until 16 July. Find out more here. :: If you feel the flowers and trees are calling, the grasses are whispering your names, come and join us in the Meadow, our Foundation Course here. __________ ‘The everyday can be extraordinary. These small and seemingly normal things going on outside are extraordinary. That connection what can bring us so much joy for so little.’ Today I’m talking to E...
Monica Griesbaum on natural tea growing in Scotland and making tea
December 04, 2019 08:58 - 1 hour - 67.7 MB:: Dialogues with Nature Network has launched and is currently open for new members to join until 16 July. Find out more here. :: If you feel the flowers and trees are calling, the grasses are whispering your names, come and join us in the Meadow, our Foundation Course here. __________ 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 beautiful relationship with...
Tiffany Francis on nature writing and the important role it plays in our current ecological times
November 14, 2019 06:30 - 34 minutes - 32 MBI’m talking to Tiffany Francis in this episode who is a nature writer and illustrator from the South Downs in Hampshire. Her third book Dark Skies was published this autumn with Bloomsbury. We discuss her published books and how they came about. Tiffany shares a lot 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 talk about the contemporary...
Tiffany Francis on nature writing and its role in our current ecological times
November 14, 2019 06:30 - 34 minutes - 32 MB:: Dialogues with Nature Network has launched and is currently open for new members to join until 16 July. Find out more here. :: If you feel the flowers and trees are calling, the grasses are whispering your names, come and join us in the Meadow, our Foundation Course here. ________ I’m talking to Tiffany Francis in this episode who is a nature writer and illustrator from the South Downs in Hampshire. Her third book Dark Skies was published this autumn with Bloomsbury. We discus...
Catalina Christensen on collecting pigments and painting - working with the memories of landscape
November 08, 2019 06:00 - 47 minutes - 43.5 MB:: Dialogues with Nature Network has launched and is currently open for new members to join until 16 July. Find out more here. :: If you feel the flowers and trees are calling, the grasses are whispering your names, come and join us in the Meadow, our Foundation Course here. __________ 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 e...
My story
November 05, 2019 15:29 - 17 minutes - 15.9 MB:: Dialogues with Nature Network has launched and is currently open for new members to join until 16 July. Find out more here. :: If you feel the flowers and trees are calling, the grasses are whispering your names, come and join us in the Meadow, our Foundation Course here. ____________ 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 eve...
Introduction
October 29, 2019 19:58 - 6 minutes - 5.92 MB:: Dialogues with Nature Network has launched and is currently open for new members to join until 16 July. Find out more here. :: If you feel the flowers and trees are calling, the grasses are whispering your names, come and join us in the Meadow, our Foundation Course here. ____________ 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...