art and ecology

Creatively Caring for Returning Species at Hollywood Forest: Great Spotted Woodpecker

This is a treasured original painting of Woodie 'Guthrie', our first Hollywood Forest resident Great Spotted Woodpecker, by acclaimed children’s book 📕 illustrator @alanorourke One of the most thrilling things about being involved in an ongoing ecological art practice at our home, like my Hollywood Forest Story is welcoming birds. Our Close-to-Nature continuous cover forestry approach,…Read more Creatively Caring for Returning Species at Hollywood Forest: Great Spotted Woodpecker

Learning from The Hollywood Forest Story in new EcoArt in Action handbook

Fantastic to have this amazing book to hand, and many congratulations to the editors and contributors. Wonderful to know The Hollywood Forest Story is in it too - the trees do seem pleased 😉 EcoArt in Action : Activities, Case Studies, and Provocations for Classrooms and Communities, New Village Press, 2022–EcoArt in Action: Activities, Case…Read more Learning from The Hollywood Forest Story in new EcoArt in Action handbook

Routledge Handbook of Placemaking 2021 ‘The Hollywood Forest Story: Placemaking for the Symbiocene’

It is still a surprise to me, after a rather tortuous and risky Creative Practice-led PhD, that The Hollywood Forest Story, and particularly my framework to explain long term ecosocial (ecological) art practice has found resonance with others. And, over and over again, creatives and educators come back to me, after reading my most popular…Read more Routledge Handbook of Placemaking 2021 ‘The Hollywood Forest Story: Placemaking for the Symbiocene’