OliviaAug 19, 20201 minEarth Art Talk: discussing embodiment, song and co-arisingI was delighted to speak recently with Narelle Carter-Quinlan for her Earth Art Talks series. I found it to be such a rich and...
OliviaApr 30, 20202 min31 days to deepen your connection with placeThere are moments when we can choose to step from one world to the next. And the world we may choose to step into is the one where live,...
OliviaApr 22, 20202 minBirdsong“I don’t know anything about consciousness. I just try to teach my students how to hear the birds sing.” Shunryu Suzuki Roshi. I sit in...
OliviaApr 22, 20204 minDo we need a new story for the world? Or a new song? “A dangerous monster threatens our community. One man takes it on himself to kill the beast and restore happiness to the kingdom…” This...
OliviaMar 21, 20202 minView from the ArkI wrote this poem at the end of February 2020, when 200% of the average rainfall in the UK in February had fallen. It seemed like the...
OliviaMar 8, 20201 minMy artwork 'Threshold' in Mill Valley, CA exhibitionI am delighted that my artwork 'Threshold' was selected for a group show at the George Lawson Gallery in Mill Valley, California. It is...
OliviaFeb 15, 20201 minListening to trees in AmazoniaListening to trees in the Amazon in Ecuador with Gordon Hempton
OliviaAug 18, 20194 minThe dance of the unseenThis blog was first published on the Explorer X website . We are deep in the Ecuadorian Amazon, staying with the Cofan people in their...
OliviaJul 16, 20196 min"Nobody sees a flower really" - my artist's talk at BigCi, Australia Because if we don’t see flowers, we often don’t see trees either. In my time at this residency, I came across the term ‘plant blindness’.
OliviaJul 16, 20193 minThe Jaya Sri Maha Bodhi tree, Sri LankaThe Jaya Sri Maha Bodhi tree, in Anuradhapura, is the reason that I chose to visit Sri Lanka. It is the oldest tree recorded to be planted
OliviaMar 14, 20193 minFirst stop: India – Or in which I discover that my first tree is the banyan treeIt’s now been 25 days since I set out from Helsinki to Puducherry, landing in Chennai. I spent the first three nights in Puducherry,...
OliviaMar 14, 20196 minIn Search of the Canary Tree: A book review and introduction to five themes for my bookAt the start of my own journey to the trees, I read ‘In Search of the Canary Tree’. This book is Dr Lauren Oakes’ account of how she...
OliviaMar 14, 20191 minListening to my little voiceWhilst I was still in New York, I read a post on Terri Connellan's Quiet Writing website which resonated with me about listening to my...
OliviaFeb 6, 20192 minThe music of deep ecologyI sit by the side of a pond in the Catksills, upstate New York. The pond is in a valley created by a meteor crater. The meteor landed...