Episode 133: Kelly Carmody – Painted Trails Art

Kelly explores her love of nature through many different creative outlets, including nature journaling, photography, and embroidery. Kelly uses creativity as a way to understand and connect with the landscapes of her local area.

Listen to hear more about:

• Kelly’s childhood experiences of the ocean and the coast.
• The power of making connections with animals.
• How being vulnerable can lead to important connections between people.
• How the pandemic reconnected Kelly with art and nature.
• The landscapes close to Kelly’s home.
• Tracking the seasons in your nature journal.
• Practicing drawing at home so that we can be faster and more accurate in the field.
• Actively resisting perfectionist tendencies and the need to ‘produce’ something.
• Kelly’s creative practice and favourite art tools.

You can connect with Kelly and her work on Instagram @painted_trails_art.

If you are interested in Richard Louv’s book that was mentioned on the podcast, you can find it here: Our Wild Calling: How connecting with animals can transform our lives – and save theirs.

In our conversation we referred to a previous conversation I had with artist Sarah Byfield. You can listen to that episode here: Episode 51 – Nature as an expression of love.

Kelly mentioned a book that is a favourite in the nature journaling circles. It is called Braiding Sweetgrass by Robin Wall Kimmerer.

Kelly talked about her perpetual nature journal which is a method of journaling invented by Lara Gastinger. You can learn more here: Perpetual Nature Journaling.

I referred to a book by Danny Gregory called Shut Your Monkey, which you can find on Danny’s website.

We talked about creating a loose style and I mentioned Tim Pond as one wonderful example of an artist who does this well. Find out more about Tim’s books and classes here.

Kelly mentioned an amazing book called the Cold Canyon Fire Journals by artist Robin Lee Carlson. You can find out more on Robin’s website.

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