Artwork Description:

Title: Day 472 (17th April 2024) Elf Cups

Day 472 (17th April 2024) Elf Cups.

Went to Leadburn Community Woodland, and on the walk, I saw these Elf Cups. They had to end up in the nature journal.

Nature Journal entry.

Painted in watercolour in a Moleskin watercolour notebook.

Actual size: 8″ x 5″ (20.5 cm x 13 cm).

Artist Bio:

I am passionate about nature – I have been my entire life, from walking in the Lake District as a teenager to setting up a social enterprise (Instinctively Wild CIC) specialising in Forest Schools and Eco-therapy in the Scottish Borders and Lothians.

I am a nature journalist, I chronicle nature around me on a daily basis in the watercolour medium. I use my photgraphic skills to capture images and then paint the best of those images in watercolour.

I am an educator, artist and social entrepreneur.

My background over the last twenty four years has been primary school teaching, specialising in Forest Schools and Outdoor Learning.

Every day I make space for nature, trying to capture it in all its moods, whether that’s the sky, birds, plants, insects, trees or any other aspect of nature.

As John Muir said, “In every walk with nature one receives far more than he seeks.” This is what I strive for each day.

I am a self-taught artist.