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Journaling With Nature
by Bethan Burton
Journaling With Nature is for those who want to turn curiosity into wonder, a pencil sketch into a rabbit hole of discovery, a moment of stillness into a life full of joy.
Episodes
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Episode 196: Teaching to learn
An interesting and powerful way to learn something new is to try and teach it to someone else. In teaching a concept or skill we have to first be clear, articulate and intentional with our explanations, and this intentionality can cement the knowledge in our own minds. Is there something new that...
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Episode 195: Trace Balla – Catching and hatching stories
Trace works as a graphic novelist and illustrator and lives on Djaara Country in south-eastern Australia. Observing and recording the details of the natural world and weaving this together with stories of the people who live and play here, her graphic novels delight readers of all ages. Listen to...
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Episode 194: Printmaking in nature
Printmaking is a fun and easy way to capture our impressions of nature and can be incorporated into our nature journaling practice. In this prompt episode I chat about different printmaking techniques and how they can be used to explore our world. To revisit my podcast conversation with…
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Episode 193: Sushma Hegde – Watercolour Florals
Sushma is a self-taught watercolour artist and author based in Luxembourg. After beginning her career in engineering, Sushma shifted to pursuing art full time, giving her the opportunity to be fully immersed in creativity and nature while sharing this passion with others. Listen to hear more…
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A little update
A little update on the podcast and an invitation to adjust or delete your Patreon pledge if you feel like it as the podcast upload schedule changes. Thank you all for the amazing support you have given the podcast!
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Episode 192: Nature Journaling July
Join in with the daily prompts this month as we explore nature journaling in the garden. The Wild Wonder Foundation is hosting a year-long series of nature journal prompts and this month Bethan was invited to create a set of prompts on the theme of garden journaling. You can find the prompts list...
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Episode 191: Victoria Beyer – Art and identity
Victoria is a Chilean artist based in Germany. Her botanical art balances scientific accuracy with creative freedom, exploring themes of social masking, neurodivergence, female identity, and belonging. Listen to hear more about: Victoria’s early connection with nature and creativity. Moving from...
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Episode 190: Countdown to INJW 2025
International Nature Journaling Week is coming up again very soon (1-7th June). In this episode we will explore the themes and ways that you can get involved in the celebration. Our overarching theme this year is Conversations With Nature. We will explore ways that we can listen, learn from, and...
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Episode 189: Maria Coryell-Martin – Expeditionary art
Maria is an expeditionary artist whose work has led her to some of the planet’s most wild and remote locations. Collaborating with scientific research teams, Maria uses art as a tool for communication. She is the founder of Art Toolkit, a company that specialises in portable materials for...
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Episode 188: Seed study
Seeds are magical little packages of potential! Each seed holds all the genetic information needed to grow into a plant that may feed us, provide shade, or offer food and habitat for wildlife. The diversity of seeds is both fascinating and valuable, making them the perfect subject for our nature...
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Episode 187: Jennifer Jewell – Partnering with plants
Jennifer is a gardener, author and podcast host. By examining the intersection between gardens and human culture, her work helps to expand how we think about gardens, positioning gardeners as essential knowledge-holders and change-makers of our time. Listen to hear more about: Jennifer’s first...
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Episode 186: Gentle words
We are often very good at encouraging others and noticing things to admire in the artwork of those around us, but it can be more challenging to offer those same gentle words to ourselves. This week, we will practice finding things to love about our own creations and speaking to ourselves with...
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Episode 185: James Sisti – Hike and Draw
James is an artist and wilderness guide from New York. Driven by a desire to make the outdoors accessible to more people, James created Hike and Draw - a platform where he combines art and education to help people connect with nature in a meaningful way. Listen to hear more about: The rhythm of…
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Episode 184: Fact finding adventure
Learning some facts can be a powerful tool for understanding and connecting with animals. Following on from our conversation with Lee Putman from Facts and Fine Liners, let’s go on our own fact-finding adventure and see what we can learn about our chosen animal species. I would love to hear your...
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Episode 183: Lee Putman – Facts and Fine Liners
Lee is an artist and educator based in London. Weaving together fine art and storytelling, his compelling videos open us to the fascinating wonders of the animal kingdom. Listen to hear more about: Lee’s creative history, including the development of his street dance and fine art. Incorporating...
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Episode 182: Our place in space
Contemplating Earth as part of a vast solar system, galaxy, and universe offers a powerful perspective. Let's explore ways to use nature journaling to connect with our place in space. In the episode I chat about the book Orbital by Samantha Harvey. Listen to episode 175 of this podcast where I…
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Episode 181: Kirstie Willean – Seward Nature Journaling
Kirstie is a teacher and nature journaler from Alaska. Her career has led her through a wide range of teaching situations, always with a focus on respect for people and place. Listen to hear more about: Kirstie’s career that has spanned a wide range of teaching situations. The natural environment...
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Episode 180: Big weather
Extreme weather events are becoming more frequent and severe. Nature journaling offers a way to document these events while also capturing our personal experiences and responses. Two nature journalers who document the effects of extreme weather are Miriam Morrill from @pyrosketchology and Robin…
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Episode 179: Angela E. Douglas – The power of local
Angela is a writer, scientist, and natural historian. Through her writing, she celebrates the power of the local—what can be discovered when we slow down, tune in, and notice the subtle wonders of the world around us. Listen to hear more about: How the 2020 lockdowns started Angela’s writing...
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Episode 178: Looking for spirals
Spirals are all around us in nature, and finding them can be a joyful challenge. This week, let’s go on a treasure hunt by tuning into the spirals in our nearby nature and capturing them on the pages of our nature journals. I would love to hear about the spirals you found this week. You can leave…
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Episode 177: Trina Walton – Science, art and community connections
Trina is a science teacher at a nature-based school, where she weaves together science and art through nature journaling. By guiding her students in an immersive learning experience, she helps them explore the world while creatively capturing their observations. Listen to hear more about…
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Episode 176: Landscapes of the imagination
Imagining ourselves in a landscape can be a calming and peaceful experience. What if we transformed these imagined landscapes into nature journal entries? These entries could serve as a source of calm when needed or even as the first step in bringing our envisioned landscapes to life. If you try...
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Episode 175: Kate Skinner – Landscape in literature
This very special episode is a celebration of the life of Kate Skinner. Kate was passionate about human rights and social justice. She had a deep love of literature and the transformative power of human stories. Her warmth and love was felt by everyone in her life. Listen to hear more about: The...
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Episode 174: Symbiosis stories
Symbiosis is a close biological relationship between two different organisms, where at least one benefits from their interaction. Symbiosis highlights the interconnectedness and interdependence of living organisms and we will explore the different types of symbiosis in today’s prompt episode. I...
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Episode 173: Juliene Sinclair – Co-creating with watercolour
Juliene is an artist and watercolour educator. Through her engaging classes and vibrant online community, Juliene inspires artists to build creative confidence and embrace the joy of painting. Listen to hear more about: The winding career path that led Juliene to becoming a watercolour educator....
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Episode 172: Seeds of hope
When the world feels like it is in a dark place and things appear out of control, focusing on what brings hope can sustain us. Hope not only offers solace but also motivation to make positive change. Our nature journals can become a place to cultivate hope. Let’s share hopeful ideas and resources...
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Episode 171: Ria Kotze – Following the paintbrush
Artist and bird enthusiast Ria Kotze explores her curiosity and passion for nature through creativity. Her story has taken her on adventures to many parts of the world, and now her biggest adventure of all is following her paintbrush wherever it leads. Listen to hear more about: The species that...
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Episode 170: Surprise and delight
Being in nature offers endless opportunities to be surprised and delighted by all the wonders that we find there. When you are outside, tune your awareness to those things that are new and different, to those surprising moments that make you gasp from joy and wonder. I would love to hear about…
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Episode 169: Nics Johnson – Connection with intention
Nics is a business and personal coach from Edinburgh, Scotland. She is training to be a forest bathing guide and approaches her work and nature connection practice with curiosity, an open heart, and a firm belief in the awesomeness of individuals. Listen to hear more about: The ways that...
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Episode 168: Inktober in the garden
This month I am going to be using a prompt list to encourage myself to keep a regular garden journal again. This has been inspired by Inktober which is an art challenge where participants sketch something in ink, every day for the month of October. There is an official list, but I have created my...
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Episode 167: Ane Garmendia – Nature is the way
Ane is a multilingual translator living in Basque Country. Ane’s work explores the ways that nature and creativity can foster wellbeing. Listen to hear more about: The similarities between language translation and painting. The reasons why Ane chooses to prioritise using the Basque language in…
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Episode 166: From the window
Windows are there to connect us with the wider world. Look out your window and journal about what you see. Can you see trees, or the sky? Can you see human stories unfolding? Sketch what you see and describe it with words. My favourite window-gazing journalers are Clare Walker Leslie and Brooke...
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Episode 165: Maja Aaby Pedersen - Creative sustainability
Maja is a multi-creative Danish artist living in Sydney, Australia. Maja dedicated herself to filling a hand-made nature journal each month for a year and came to know nature in her adopted country more deeply through the process. Listen to hear more about: Plant awareness disparity and how it...
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Episode 164: Revisit old journals
Looking back at our old journals can show how our practice has developed and remind us of techniques we would like to use again. Sometimes we can even answer our own nature questions! For today’s prompt, we will revisit our past journal pages and see what they can teach us. I would love to hear...
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Episode 163: Naomi Jenkin – Art for wildlife
Using her experiences in the natural world as inspiration, Naomi creates detailed fine art with the aim of connecting people with wildlife. She is passionate about using art to help support wildlife conservation projects around the world. Listen to hear more about: The beautiful landscapes and...
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Episode 162: Your own regional microseasons
The traditional Japanese calendar divides the year into 72 microseasons, each representing a period of change in the natural world. Pay attention to the small changes that happen in your region and see if you can identify some microseasons of your own. This week we are experimenting with an idea...
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Episode 161: Mary Jo Hoffman - Creative noticing and the power of dailiness
Every day for over twelve years, Mary Jo has posted a photograph of nature on her blog STILL. More than just a daily creative project, STILL has offered deep insights and connection to place. Listen to hear more about: A childhood spent exploring nature. How an aptitude for mathematics led Mary…
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Episode 160: Start with play
Bringing play into our nature journaling practice is an invitation to lean towards joy and freedom and away from perfectionism and self-criticism. Start your journaling sessions with play – embrace all of your silly, wonky, imperfect, life-filled lines and have fun! Over on the Journaling With...
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Episode 159: Katrin Beißert – Nature journaling in community
Listen to hear more about: How Kaddi came to nature journaling. Kaddi’s ideal day in nature. How nature was a solace for Kaddi during a challenging time. The growing nature journaling community in Germany and other German speaking regions in Europe. The regular in-person and online nature...
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Episode 158: One Year Bird
Today’s prompt comes from a challenge created by last week’s guest, Sofia Gazarian. Sofia’s idea was to draw or paint the same bird each month for a year. Through this process you will be able to watch your own progress as you develop your skills of drawing birds. You can control the variables by...
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Episode 157: Sofia Gazarian – Keeping a bird journal
Sofia has a passion for birdwatching. While cultivating a daily sketching habit, Sofia has learned that you can find birds and make amazing discoveries even in the heart of a big city. Listen to hear more about: Making personal discoveries in nature. How Sofia went from selling vintage bird art…
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Episode 156: Explore the corners
Today we are exploring the corners of our environment, the neglected places that we do not normally visit. There are nature stories here too. Take some time to nature journal the things that you notice in a place that might have been overlooked for a while. While I was playing with my son in the...
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Episode 155: Jarod K. Anderson – Magic hiding in plain sight
Jarod is a poet, author and podcaster who writes intimately about the appreciation of nature, the interconnectedness of all things, and the complex experience of being human. Listen to hear more about: Jarod’s first experiences writing poetry in nature. The wildlife Jarod encounters living…
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Episode 154: Countdown to INJW 2024
International Nature Journaling Week is coming up again soon (1-7th June) and in this episode I chat about all the ways that you can get involved during the week. Our overarching theme this year is ‘Celebrating the Cycles of Life’ and our daily themes will explore the biological processes that...
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Episode 153: Suzy Sharpe – Impressions of Nature
Through her work, painter and printmaker Suzy Sharpe explores the ways that humans and nature are interconnected and how humans make meaning from this connection through creative expression. Listen to hear more about: Studying fine art and illustration while raising a family. Finding the balance...
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Episode 152: Free writing
Free writing is a technique where we write continuously for a period of time, without censorship or judgment. It can help us connect with our natural surroundings as well as our inner landscape, and can bring clarity, insight and a sense of calm. ----------------- Sign-up for Journaling With...
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Episode 151: Anastasiia Morozova – Natura Illustrata
Anastasiia is a watercolour artist, creative mentor, and digital nomad, sharing her travel sketchbook and adventures. Through her courses and online community, Anastasiia helps other artists follow their own creative paths. Listen to hear more about: The classical art training Anastasiia received...
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Episode 150: Make a collection
Creating a collection of objects on a nature journal page can help us notice differences and similarities between things within a particular category. It can also be a wonderful way to capture memories of our time spent in nature. I invite you to start a collection of objects or observations and...
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Episode 149: Leandra Taylor – Finding your personal summit
Leandra is an artist, environmental scientist, and educator. Through her work she invites others to connect with the joy and wonder that can be found in the outdoors. Listen to hear more about: The experience of monitoring whooping crane data and how that unlocked Leandra’s love of birdwatching....
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Episode 148: Colour hunt
Let’s go on a colour hunt! Take a small handful of colour pencils and head outside. See if you can find these colours around you in nature. When you find something that matches one of the colours you chose, sketch that object in your journal using the pencil. ----------------- Sign-up for...
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Journaling With Nature is for those who want to turn curiosity into wonder, a pencil sketch into a rabbit hole of discovery, a moment of stillness into a life full of joy.
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Journaling With Nature is created and hosted by Bethan Burton.
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