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NATURE WRITING | PROJECT INNOVATION | DISPLAYS & EXHIBITS

Come forth into the light of things,

let nature be your teacher.

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Thank you for visiting my website, where I share my work offerings and experience, as well as my love of nature, poetry, and the hope that, through deepening our awareness and appreciation of the natural world, we can bring beauty, peacefulness, and simplicity into our lives.

Over the years, I have been inspired and motivated by a few words that I keep with me and which I read long ago, by Vietnamese monk Thích Nhất Hạnh, that said, 'If we want peace, we need to be peace; peace is a practice, not a hope.' And through my writing, I explore the concept of living a peaceful life in harmony with the wider living world and then deeper thoughts of how peace comes from within and from the small decisions we make each day to consciously honour that desire for peace.

Among my offerings, I curate awareness displays and projects focusing on conceptual artworks within a broader environmental narrative. I have recently released my first fiction story, As the Wild Geese Fly, inspired by poetry, nature, and the beautiful English countryside. Please be in touch if you would like to chat about working together.

They soon find themselves back alongside the tangled hedgerows, with Richard’s cottage a short distance away, beyond the meadow. The air is warm and salty, and it smells of grasses and washed-up kelp drying along the riverbank, and everything feels touched with soulfulness and a-flow with life. Stopping to stand a while, Rachel watches Richard walking ahead, and she notices the soft light catching the profile of his face. He seems relaxed as he talks quietly to Daisy, and she feels overcome with wonder, finding herself here with him.

It is in the delicate balancing of all that we have achieved in our modern world with the deeper spiritual dimensions of reverence for the earth that we move eloquently and sensitively towards the wholeness of our lives.

As the Wild Geese Fly

A small story of connections, longings, poetry, and a deepening awareness of wild nature.

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Reimagining

a new way of being

I truly believe that living as simple a life as possible and being mindful of our material impacts adds a significant depth to one’s life that resonates with the knowledge that we are both caring and cognisant of the wider living world around us. In a world where we can be anything, let's be kind...

'There is a kindness that dwells deep down in things; it presides everywhere, often in the places we least expect...' Click to read this inspiring article by John O'Donohue.

In mid-wood silence, thus, how sweet to be; Where all the noises, that on peace intrude, Come from the chittering cricket, bird, and bee, Whose songs have charms to sweeten solitude.

JOHN CLARE

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