These sketchbook pages felt like my soul going onto paper, something I haven’t felt with art for a while. Using reference photos only for anatomy of animals and letting my imagination guide the rest🌛these are going to be fun to make into paintings.

Holding those long golden days close to my heart for many moons to come.

The place nestled in the middle of Dorset that we visit as a family every year, a tradition that predates me as well- but the same farm. Unchanged trees and green hills, always buzzards overhead and sheep calling, the same smell of the timber summer house and decking in the sun. The same routes walked but never tired of. The same beaches nearby and even the same debate over sharing or having your own volcano ice (hot fresh doughnuts with ice cream & sauce). Till next year

We are living in a time of deep disconnect, from nature, from food systems, from each other, from art, stillness and presence. The list goes on, but last week with the @organisednutrition film crew we documented those rooted in reconnection to the land, community and nature. I was mainly left with a sense of deep gratitude and hope. I witnessed the curiosity of kids first hand with a dead deer, the willingness to learn about why deer population control is important, the intricacies of taking a life and what it means to honour that life. From nose to tail, hunting through to the tanning of hides that are often discarded. Even the hair isn’t wasted by @baytinetannery - given to local plasterers to use as an age old technique. I was in awe of these individuals, their craft and eloquence about these subjects they feel to their bones. My dreams and days have been eerily filled with deer since- today I saw four fallow does quietly watching us a while before we noticed them before skipping off deeper into the woods. Yesterday a completely black fallow did the same. If you can take anything from these stories, it’s to water the seeds of curiosity, knowing where your food comes from. Being still enough to notice wildlife wherever you find yourself. There is an abundance of wild food outside, we just need to know where to look. Full Nose to Tail documentary going live next month with @organisednutrition

Before the industrialisation of agriculture we looked to natural ways of fertilising the crops & fields- gathering nutrient rich seaweed, grazing healthy animals to create a regenerative soil system. Now intense tilling, mono crops, artificial fertilisers and pesticides have wreaked havoc on the ecosystem that should be beneath our feet and supporting our food systems. Salt of the Earth explores the people and projects by the coast bringing back these incredible regenerative systems for a better future of food and farming. @organisednutrition Directed by @seth.hughes

I’ve wild camped across the highlands twice now and I still can’t find the exact words for how it feels to be a part of the landscape there. It is completely otherworldly from England. Separated by both distance and wildness of it all. The birds, the bones, the mountains and Atlantic Ocean. Rich colours beyond what you can imagine. Late September was my favourite time of year, summer turns to autumn and it feels like the season was made for the north. There’s a deep, unrelenting ache to go back. Wild camping is a fickle memory of being completely at home without those four walls but also followed by sleep deprivation and unexpectedly freezing nights. Though Scotland felt like a balm for that too.