Episode 99: Sandy McDermott - Purposeful play

Episode 99: Sandy McDermott - Purposeful play

Sandy is an artist, instructor and writer exploring the world through her sketchbook. Sandy uses field sketching to learn about her environment, coming to know the landscape and its inhabitants more deeply through creativity and mindful observation.

Listen to hear more about:

  • Sandy’s first memories of nature and art.
  • The process of ‘bushwhacking’ a path to find her professional career.
  • Sandy’s difficulty in owning the label of “artist” and the beautiful story of how she came to see herself as she truly is.
  • Exploring anxieties through a sketchbook.
  • Sandy’s favourite art tools.
  • How Sandy brings ‘purposeful play’ into her personal practice and her classes.
  • Field Sketching: A Year of Mindfulness.
  • The importance of birds in Sandy’s work and the summer-long ‘spark experience’ that got her hooked on birding.


Find out more about Sandy and her work at https://www.sandymcdermott.com. You can also find Sandy on Instagram and Facebook.

To learn more about Sandy’s year-long course, Field Sketching: A Year of Mindfulness, you can email her at sandy@sandymcdermott.com or put your name on the priority list here.

The Hand Book Paper Co. Travelogue watercolor journal that Sandy talked about can be found here.

You can find the book Living On the Wind by Scott Weidensaul here.

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