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 Chile to Germany and how art helped her connect with her new environment.Studying botanical art by correspondence. The joys and challenges of working with live plants.The botanical artists that have influenced and inspired Victoria.The differences between traditional and contemporary botanical art. Working from pressed herbarium specimens. Victoria’s relationship with ‘perfectionism’.The tools used by botanical artists.Colour mixing ‘recipes’. Victoria’s body of work exploring identity and the experience of social masking.The reason why Victoria feels an affinity with orchids. Victoria’s online course Botanical Watercolors: Learn to Paint Realistic Flowers. You can find Victoria on her website (www.victoria-beyer.com) and on Instagram @victoria_botanical and @victoria.beyer.artist.Learn from Victoria in her online course Botanical Watercolors: Learn to Paint Realistic Flowers. Sign up to Victoria’s mailing list to receive a 10% discount on her artwork, an art catalogue and more!-----------------Sign-up for Journaling With Nature's Newsletter to receive news and updates each month. You can support Journaling With Nature Podcast on Patreon. Your contribution is deeply appreciated.Thanks for listening!
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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 communicate with the natural world. We will have a daily theme to focus our journaling. These daily themes will be:1. Describing the indescribable2. Playing with words3. Exploring nature through poetry4. Storytelling with nature5. Listening attentively6. Sensing the world around us7. Creating a vision for the futureThe website for International Nature Journaling Week is www.naturejournalingweek.com. The best way to stay in touch and not miss anything is by signing up to the newsletter. On the INJW website there is a Journal Share page where you can share your work with others and leave encouragement and support for other people’s pages. You can connect with others from all around the world on the INJW Facebook group. To share your pages on Instagram or Facebook, use the hashtag #naturejournalingweek.com. If you would like to see my daily pages during the week and participate in giveaways, follow @journalingwithnature on Instagram.-----------------Sign-up for Journaling With Nature's Newsletter to receive news and updates. You can support Journaling With Nature Podcast on Patreon. Your contribution is deeply appreciated.Thanks for listening!
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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 adventurous artists.Listen to hear more about:The links between Maria’s early life and her career as an expeditionary artist.The fellowship that allowed Maria to travel the world and make art for a year.The similarities and differences between the Arctic and the Antarctic landscapes.The process of communication between scientific research team and artist.Landscape sketching.Active observation.Using art to communicate the science of climate change.The development of Art Toolkit.Micro-adventures in our everyday lives. You can find Maria’s art and adventures at www.expeditionaryart.com. To learn more about Art Toolkit, visit their website and Instagram @arttoolkit. Art Toolkit have a wonderful collection of demonstrations and tutorials over on YouTube. Maria and the Art Toolkit team have generously created a discount code for listeners (valid until July 31st, 2025). The code is: NATUREJOURNALING15. You can apply the code at checkout to get 15% off your purchase. -----------------Sign-up for Journaling With Nature's Newsletter to receive news and updates each month.You can support Journaling With Nature Podcast on Patreon. Your contribution is deeply appreciated.Thanks for listening!
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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 journals.I would love to hear about the seeds that you have been exploring in your nature journal. You can leave a comment on the Journaling With Nature website. -----------------Sign-up for Journaling With Nature's Newsletter to receive news and updates.You can support Journaling With Nature Podcast on Patreon. Your contribution is deeply appreciated.Thanks for listening!
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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 garden.The lessons a garden can teach us.Expanding the definition of gardening and reflecting on what gardening means to us.Our biological and cultural ties to flowers. The cultivated spaces that make Jennifer feel at home.The feeling of loving a garden.Jennifer’s book What We Sow: On the Personal, Ecological and Cultural Significance of Seeds. Gardens as places of hope during uncertain times.Jennifer’s garden journaling practice. To learn more about Jennifer, you can explore the Cultivating Place website or find her on Instagram @cultivating_place.Jennifer has written three books that you can order from your local, independent bookstore:The Earth in Her Hands: 75 Extraordinary Women Working in the World of Plants. Under Western Skies: Visionary Gardens from the Rocky Mountains to the Pacific Coast. What We Sow: On the Personal, Ecological and Cultural Significance of Seeds.Jennifer will be a guest speaker at this 2025 Wild Wonder Nature Journaling Conference. You can buy your ticket to the conference here. -----------------Sign-up for Journaling With Nature's Newsletter to receive news and updates each month. You can support Journaling With Nature Podcast on Patreon. Your contribution is deeply appreciated.Thanks for listening!
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