“My working definition of love is sustained, compassionate attention. When you pay attention to another, it changes your relationship with them, and it also changes you. That attention is also what forms and sustains our relationship with the natural world. Your attention is one of the greatest gifts that you can give to the world, […]
April was very busy seeing me conduct two workshops, with one being a full day workshop. Floral Fusion One Day Workshop The first workshop, ‘Floral Fusion’ was my first one day workshop which was an expansion of my Spring Flowers workshop, held late last year. And that workshop focused more on art and drawing skills, […]
The real voyage of discovery consists not in seeking new landscapes, but in having new eyes. – Marcel Proust It was down to the wire, the morning of the ‘Landscapes Made Simple’ workshop, after a week of rain and unpredictable weather. But the universe delivered on my prayers with the clouds opening up to a […]
“Drawing takes time. A line has time in it.” ~ David Hockney The last nature journaling workshop of the year called ‘Spring Flowers’ was recently held. This workshop was quite different from previous workshops, in that it was really focused on drawing skills, as opposed to nature journaling walks and journal entries. I chose a […]
“Adopt the pace of nature: her secret is patience.” ~ Ralph Waldo Emerson Back in June, I held a sold out, beginner nature journaling workshop, where we were inspired by the lagoon and bush setting of The Lotus Cottage in Logan Village. The morning started out a bit chilly, but thankfully the sun popped out, […]
