Journaling With Nature

Episode 196: Teaching to learn

05 Apr 2026

Contributed by Lukas

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 clea...

Episode 195: Trace Balla – Catching and hatching stories

04 Feb 2026

Contributed by Lukas

Trace works as a graphic novelist and illustrator and lives on Djaara Country in south-eastern Australia. Observing and recording the details of the ...

Episode 194: Printmaking in nature

17 Nov 2025

Contributed by Lukas

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 epi...

Episode 193: Sushma Hegde – Watercolour Florals

28 Oct 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Sushma is a self-taught watercolour artist and author based in Luxembourg. After beginning her career in engineering, Sushma shifted to pursuing art f...

A little update

18 Aug 2025

Contributed by Lukas

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. ...

Episode 192: Nature Journaling July

21 Jul 2025

Contributed by Lukas

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 na...

Episode 191: Victoria Beyer – Art and identity

25 May 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Victoria is a Chilean artist based in Germany. Her botanical art balances scientific accuracy with creative freedom, exploring themes of social maskin...

Episode 190: Countdown to INJW 2025

19 May 2025

Contributed by Lukas

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 i...

Episode 189: Maria Coryell-Martin – Expeditionary art

12 May 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Maria is an expeditionary artist whose work has led her to some of the planet’s most wild and remote locations. Collaborating with scientific resear...

Episode 188: Seed study

04 May 2025

Contributed by Lukas

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 shad...

Episode 187: Jennifer Jewell – Partnering with plants

27 Apr 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Jennifer is a gardener, author and podcast host. By examining the intersection between gardens and human culture, her work helps to expand how we thin...

Episode 186: Gentle words

20 Apr 2025

Contributed by Lukas

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 ...

Episode 185: James Sisti – Hike and Draw

13 Apr 2025

Contributed by Lukas

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...

Episode 184: Fact finding adventure

06 Apr 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Learning some facts can be a powerful tool for understanding and connecting with animals. Following on from our conversation with Lee Putman from Fac...

Episode 183: Lee Putman – Facts and Fine Liners

31 Mar 2025

Contributed by Lukas

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...

Episode 182: Our place in space

23 Mar 2025

Contributed by Lukas

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...

Episode 181: Kirstie Willean – Seward Nature Journaling

17 Mar 2025

Contributed by Lukas

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 resp...

Episode 180: Big weather

09 Mar 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Extreme weather events are becoming more frequent and severe. Nature journaling offers a way to document these events while also capturing our persona...

Episode 179: Angela E. Douglas – The power of local

04 Mar 2025

Contributed by Lukas

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...

Episode 178: Looking for spirals

23 Feb 2025

Contributed by Lukas

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 i...

Episode 177: Trina Walton – Science, art and community connections

09 Feb 2025

Contributed by Lukas

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 a...

Episode 176: Landscapes of the imagination

26 Jan 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Imagining ourselves in a landscape can be a calming and peaceful experience. What if we transformed these imagined landscapes into nature journal entr...

Episode 175: Kate Skinner – Landscape in literature

19 Jan 2025

Contributed by Lukas

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...

Episode 174: Symbiosis stories

06 Jan 2025

Contributed by Lukas

Symbiosis is a close biological relationship between two different organisms, where at least one benefits from their interaction. Symbiosis highlights...

Episode 173: Juliene Sinclair – Co-creating with watercolour

25 Nov 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Juliene is an artist and watercolour educator. Through her engaging classes and vibrant online community, Juliene inspires artists to build creative c...

Episode 172: Seeds of hope

18 Nov 2024

Contributed by Lukas

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 so...

Episode 171: Ria Kotze – Following the paintbrush

27 Oct 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Artist and bird enthusiast Ria Kotze explores her curiosity and passion for nature through creativity. Her story has taken her on adventures to many p...

Episode 170: Surprise and delight

21 Oct 2024

Contributed by Lukas

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 awar...

Episode 169: Nics Johnson – Connection with intention

06 Oct 2024

Contributed by Lukas

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 connec...

Episode 168: Inktober in the garden

29 Sep 2024

Contributed by Lukas

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 i...

Episode 167: Ane Garmendia – Nature is the way

23 Sep 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Ane is a multilingual translator living in Basque Country. Ane’s work explores the ways that nature and creativity can foster wellbeing.Listen to he...

Episode 166: From the window

15 Sep 2024

Contributed by Lukas

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 ...

Episode 165: Maja Aaby Pedersen - Creative sustainability

02 Sep 2024

Contributed by Lukas

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...

Episode 164: Revisit old journals

26 Aug 2024

Contributed by Lukas

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...

Episode 163: Naomi Jenkin – Art for wildlife

18 Aug 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Using her experiences in the natural world as inspiration, Naomi creates detailed fine art with the aim of connecting people with wildlife. She is pas...

Episode 162: Your own regional microseasons

11 Aug 2024

Contributed by Lukas

The traditional Japanese calendar divides the year into 72 microseasons, each representing a period of change in the natural world. Pay attention to t...

Episode 161: Mary Jo Hoffman - Creative noticing and the power of dailiness

29 Jul 2024

Contributed by Lukas

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 offer...

Episode 160: Start with play

21 Jul 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Bringing play into our nature journaling practice is an invitation to lean towards joy and freedom and away from perfectionism and self-criticism. Sta...

Episode 159: Katrin Beißert – Nature journaling in community

08 Jul 2024

Contributed by Lukas

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 tim...

Episode 158: One Year Bird

30 Jun 2024

Contributed by Lukas

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 f...

Episode 157: Sofia Gazarian – Keeping a bird journal

24 Jun 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Sofia has a passion for birdwatching. While cultivating a daily sketching habit, Sofia has learned that you can find birds and make amazing discoverie...

Episode 156: Explore the corners

16 Jun 2024

Contributed by Lukas

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 som...

Episode 155: Jarod K. Anderson – Magic hiding in plain sight

19 May 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Jarod is a poet, author and podcaster who writes intimately about the appreciation of nature, the interconnectedness of all things, and the complex ex...

Episode 154: Countdown to INJW 2024

12 May 2024

Contributed by Lukas

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 duri...

Episode 153: Suzy Sharpe – Impressions of Nature

06 May 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Through her work, painter and printmaker Suzy Sharpe explores the ways that humans and nature are interconnected and how humans make meaning from this...

Episode 152: Free writing

22 Apr 2024

Contributed by Lukas

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 ...

Episode 151: Anastasiia Morozova – Natura Illustrata

14 Apr 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Anastasiia is a watercolour artist, creative mentor, and digital nomad, sharing her travel sketchbook and adventures. Through her courses and online c...

Episode 150: Make a collection

07 Apr 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Creating a collection of objects on a nature journal page can help us notice differences and similarities between things within a particular category....

Episode 149: Leandra Taylor – Finding your personal summit

31 Mar 2024

Contributed by Lukas

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 ...

Episode 148: Colour hunt

24 Mar 2024

Contributed by Lukas

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...

Episode 147: Lily Urmann – Biomimicry and place-based learning

10 Mar 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Lily is an educator specialising in the field of biomimicry. Through curiosity and attention, joy and humour, Lily guides others to see the wonders of...

Episode 146: Journal for healing

18 Feb 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Nature journaling can be a way to take a break from our busy lives, calm the nervous system, and facilitate healing for the body and mind. Take some t...

Episode 145: Jennifer Duval-Smith – Nature, creativity and connection

12 Feb 2024

Contributed by Lukas

After a career in the corporate world, Jennifer underwent a significant life transformation by transitioning to a career as a botanical artist and edu...

Episode 144: Daily weather log

28 Jan 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Keeping track of the weather can help us be more aware of, and connected with, our surroundings. Let’s create a daily weather log for one week (or l...

Episode 143: Desmond Bovey – Coming home to the landscape

21 Jan 2024

Contributed by Lukas

After spending 30 years in France, artist Desmond Bovey returned to New Zealand and the landscape of his childhood. With attention and curiosity, Desm...

Episode 142: Sketch your pet

21 Jan 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Our pets are a little piece of nature inside our home, and they make wonderful subjects for a nature journal page. You can sketch them while they are ...

Episode 141: Jenni Meek – The architecture of nature

21 Jan 2024

Contributed by Lukas

Jenni is an artist from Samford, Queensland. She enjoys exploring the architecture of nature by playing with shapes and forms in her cyanotypes and ac...

Episode 140: Finish a project

11 Dec 2023

Contributed by Lukas

As the year comes to an end, let’s spend some time finishing up all of those half-finished creative projects, making space for new ideas and new pro...

Episode 139: Sarah Hannis – An illustrator’s journey

04 Dec 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Sarah is an illustrator and geologist living in Wales, UK. Through her many creative projects, Sarah uses art as a medium for storytelling, vividly ca...

Episode 138: Colours of the season

19 Nov 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Colours change throughout the year and sometimes we notice that colours in nature come to represent a particular season. What are the colours that you...

Episode 137: Kate Wall – Your garden as a living artwork

12 Nov 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Kate is a Brisbane-based garden consultant, author and edible weeds expert. She teaches a style of gardening that works in harmony with nature, creati...

Episode 136: Find Yourself in the Landscape

07 Nov 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Sketching landscapes in your nature journal can help you understand an ecosystem, as well as create your own sense of place and belonging. Get to know...

Episode 135: Marley Peifer – Embodying our nature connection

30 Oct 2023

Contributed by Lukas

In this conversation, Marley talks about some deep questions that have been arising for him recently, on ways to move towards an embodied relationship...

Episode 134: Beauty in decay

23 Oct 2023

Contributed by Lukas

In this episode I reflect on the beauty that can be found in the process of decay. I invite you to look for examples of change, aging, decomposition, ...

Episode 133: Kelly Carmody – Painted Trails Art

16 Oct 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Kelly explores her love of nature through many different creative outlets, including nature journaling, photography, and embroidery. Kelly uses creati...

Episode 132: Nature in grief

09 Oct 2023

Contributed by Lukas

In this episode I reflect on the ways that nature supported me through the loss of my father. Have you experienced something similar in your own life?...

Episode 131: Unfolding stories

16 Jul 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Sometimes we go outside with the intention to journal about a certain subject, and then nature shares a different story that needs to be told. When yo...

Episode 130: Elizabeth Mills – Laughing and learning

09 Jul 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Elizabeth is a freelance marine biologist and science communicator. Through her funny and joyful style, she helps others connect with the wonders of t...

Episode 129: Play with hand lettering

02 Jul 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Adding a title to your journal page can help tell a compelling story. Play around with hand lettering this week and see if you can use different fonts...

Episode 128: Meredith Woolnough – Drawing with a sewing machine

25 Jun 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Meredith is an artist from Newcastle, Australia. She uses a sewing machine to represent natural subjects through a unique form of sculptural embroider...

Episode 127: INJW Next Steps

18 Jun 2023

Contributed by Lukas

One of the richest and most rewarding parts of International Nature Journaling Week was the sense of community and connection with others from across ...

Episode 126: David George Haskell – Attention, curiosity, and sensory awareness in nature

03 Jun 2023

Contributed by Lukas

David is a biologist and writer whose work invites others to contemplate the network of relationships between all life on earth.Listen to hear more ab...

Episode 125: Countdown to INJW 2023

28 May 2023

Contributed by Lukas

In today’s episode I explain all about what is coming up for International Nature Journaling Week (1-7th June) 2023. If you would like to stay up-t...

Episode 124: Hannah Jones – Wattle and Wonder

21 May 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Hannah is a nature guide and community educator from South Australia. She is passionate about native plants and uses nature journaling as one tool for...

Episode 123: Journal with a friend

14 May 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Our prompt this week is: Journal with a Friend.Nature journaling with a friend is a joyful experience and can even deepen your understanding of the wo...

Episode 122: Jamie Solomon– Going deep

30 Apr 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Jamie is a parent educator from Malaysia. She connects with the natural world through her journal and through poetry. Jamie enjoys spending family tim...

Episode 121: Become an apprentice

16 Apr 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Our prompt this week is: Become an apprentice.Find someone who you admire, creatively, and make it a goal to study and replicate what it is you apprec...

Episode 120: Karen Colson – Connecting the dots

09 Apr 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Karen always had an inner voice that whispered to her about creativity and nature. When she was able to listen to these whispers, she opened a whole n...

Episode 119: Try something new

02 Apr 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Our prompt this week is: Try something newTry tackling a subject in your nature journal that you have avoided until now, something that stretches you ...

Episode 118: Kathryn Gander – Sketchbooking life

26 Mar 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Kathryn is an illustrator and nature journaler from County Durham, England. She fills her journal pages with vibrant and playful depictions of the sto...

Episode 117: Nature spots

13 Mar 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Our prompt this week is: Create some ‘nature spots’.Create some 'nature spots' in response to the colours you see in your nearby nature. Tune your...

Episode 116: Lisa Spangler – Watercolor Wanderer

05 Mar 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Lisa is a watercolour artist with a passion for nature. She is on a mission to share the feelings of joyand wonder that she gets when painting outdoor...

Episode 115: Make yourself comfy

28 Feb 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Our prompt this week is: Make yourself comfy.Think about ways that you can make yourself more comfortable while you are nature journaling. You might c...

Episode 114: Valentina Arros – Bio Visual

19 Feb 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Valentina is an artist who creates illustrations as a way of communicating about nature, science and sustainability. She is passionate about nature pr...

Episode 113: Find your rhythm

12 Feb 2023

Contributed by Lukas

There will be a small change to the format of the Journaling With Nature podcast, with episodes now alternating between interviews and nature journal ...

Episode 112: Mirja Brandorff – Sensing the seasons

05 Feb 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Mirja is an illustrator, nature guide and author from the Netherlands. In her nature journal, Mirja enjoys paying close attention to the rhythm of the...

Episode 111: Kelly C. Ballantyne – A birding life

23 Jan 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Kelly is a Chicago-based bird artist and photographer. Using a variety of digital and analogue techniques, Kelly is creating a series of 100 bird pain...

Episode 110: Dion Dior – Untethered curiosity

16 Jan 2023

Contributed by Lukas

Dion is an artist, naturalist and nature journal teacher. Her in-depth classes explore art and natural sciences in a diverse range of habitats. Dion c...

Episode 109: Melissa Gonzalez – Sacred gardening for pollinators and people

18 Dec 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Melissa is a landscape contractor with a passion for desert plants and pollinators. Melissa is always alert to 'breadcrumbs from the universe'; signs ...

Episode 108: Sarah Lucas – From Perth suburbs to Irish countryside

27 Nov 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Sarah moved from her home in Western Australia to the Irish countryside where she raised her family. After finding nature journaling and creative insp...

Episode 107: Mark Newton – The Artful Ranger

13 Nov 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Having followed a winding professional path all the way around the world and back to his original dream of working in conservation, Mark knows the val...

Episode 106: Sarah Reid – Teaching and learning in nature

06 Nov 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Sarah has a deep connection with nature in her local area. As a lifelong learner and natural-born teacher, Sarah enjoys exchanging with others in her ...

Episode 105: Deborah Conn – Discovering nature at every age

30 Oct 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Deborah is a nature journaler from California, USA. In her work she taught ways to combine science and art in early childhood education. Now she aims ...

Episode 104: Sonja Rosas – Never done learning

23 Oct 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Sonja is a nature journaler from the Pacific Northwest, USA. Nature and art have been part of Sonja's life from since childhood. Nature journaling has...

Episode 103: Brooke Morales – Life Noticed

10 Oct 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Brooke is a designer, writer and photographer who uses her creative skills to tell engaging stories. Through her blog, Life Noticed, Brooke shares in...

Episode 102: Craig Williams – Finding your niche

02 Oct 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Craig is an artist and scientific illustrator from Tasmania. After a career with positions ranging from feeding Tasmanian devils in a wildlife park, i...

Episode 101: Robin Lee Carlson – The Cold Canyon Fire Journals

25 Sep 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Robin is a biologist, natural science illustrator and author with a special interest in studying ecological change over time. Her new book,The Cold Ca...

Episode 100: Bethan Burton – The story so far

11 Sep 2022

Contributed by Lukas

We are celebrating 100 episodes of the Journaling With Nature podcast! For this milestone episode Beth Kelley Gillogly turns the microphone around and...

Episode 99: Sandy McDermott - Purposeful play

28 Aug 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Sandy is an artist, instructor and writer exploring the world through her sketchbook. Sandy uses field sketching to learn about her environment, comin...

Episode 98: Agnes Becker – We Are Stardust

21 Aug 2022

Contributed by Lukas

Agnes is an artist, science communicator and creator ofWe Are Stardust. Her artwork inspires a connection with the more-than-human world and her guide...