My life and inspiration as an artist began as a small child when my father took me on nature walks in the woods that surrounded our home in rural Warwickshire. He would teach me the names of wild flowers and trees, insects, butterflies, and birds along with which snakes to keep away from!! He would…
April is usually one of the busiest months in the garden. To avoid that feeling of overwhelm with all that needs to be done I’ve found that planning tasks around the Moon rhythms can really help me to organise myself. The Solar Eclipse always happens at the new Moon: 8th April 2024 The UK will…
All my life, I have felt most at home in green spaces. Nature is my family—living beings in relationship with each other and with the Earth. So much of life exists because of the mutual support we call symbiosis. My work as a herbalist connected me deeply to nature, feeling awe and reverence for the…
Who are you, Lucy Tipper? I am a Botanical Contact Print Artist and Eco Painter living on the south coast of England. My work celebrates a connection to Earth through ceremony and deep listening. My images are created from nature herself, gently foraging plant materials from wild landscapes before taking them through a dye process…
Written by Chris Ellis The whole planet is standing in balance at the Equinoxes; having the same experience of light. This week initiates a 20-year phase of deep transformation of our planetary life. Northern Hemisphere Spring Equinox 20 March 2023 The Equinoxes are moments in the year at which light and dark are of equal…
by David Greygoose Writing is an act of tapping into the energies of the Earth We are shaped and moved by the energies of the Earth. These are all about us – in the depths of the soil, in the rhythm of the water and in the forces of the wind. They enter through us…
by Polly Hall I’m going to be honest and say I’m not a morning person. I appreciate the promise that sunrise brings but I love the dark. I love dusk, and crepuscular is one of my favourite words. Dimsy dark as we like to say in Somerset – when you can spot the faery folk,…