Your Wild World
A Creative Ecology
Sketchbook Practice
Transform your relationship with the natural world.
And yourself.
Coming Soon!
Hi, I’m Natalie
(and I am a little-bit-very in love with the wild)
Let me tell you all about my new course, Your Wild World.
Your wild world is calling.
Create a sketchbook filled with the things that matter to you
By the end of a month together, you'll have cultivated a practice of deep noticing and presence - and a sketchbook that holds the story of your unique relationship with the wild world around and within you.
Come Home to Your Wild Self.
Your Wild World is a Self Paced but guided 30 Day Creative Ecology Practice, a way to weave your place, your wild kin, and your own creative thread into a sketchbook. With a beautiful eBook, videos, and 30 days of prompts, you will feel empowered to create pages devoted to your wild world and your story of wonder, curiosity, and compassion.
All you need is paper and a pencil - and your big wild heart.
Experience presence and cultivate wonder through a Field Guide to You
What Your Wild World is.
This is not an art class where you follow tutorials.
I'm giving you inspiration and skills to make the art
only you can make, because it is your wild relationship.
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This IS an art (and heart) practice in a sketchbook, that has three elements.
Something you can touch with your own hands
A wild being that inspires you
Some words from your wild heart
That’s it. That’s the crux of it all.
Simple, but profoundly impactful.
It is a supported creative practice of presence, relationship building, respect, reciprocity and reverence.
The practice and your unfurling is wholly yours and uniquely beautiful, just like you.
I’m walking alongside you the whole way.
Why Your Relationship with the Wild World Matters
Right now, in this moment of global overwhelm and endless digital noise, we're more disconnected from the natural world - and from ourselves - than ever before. We've been taught that nature is something "out there," separate from us. That our attention should be on productivity, on “the news”, on scrolling, not dandelions. That our creative responses to the world don't matter unless they're perfect or expert.
Your unique way of noticing matters because it's YOURS.
The relationship you build with the bird outside your window, the way light moves across your wall, the textures that call to your fingers - these aren't trivial observations. They're threads of connection in a technological era desperately trying to convince us we're alone. They’re awe and wonder in a time of on-line chaos that wants us small and scared and in-line.
I see, I wonder, I weave
Reclaim your attention
When you tend your relationship with the wild, you:
Remember you belong to something larger than the chaos of human systems
Access a source of wonder and groundedness that can't be taken from you
Develop your capacity for presence in a world that profits from your distraction
Reclaim your creativity as a birth right, not a competition
Document your becoming alongside the seasons and cycles that hold us all
This isn't about making pretty pages.
It's about remembering who you are as part of this wild, beautiful, interconnected world.
And that changes everything.
Ecology: the relationships of organisms to one another and to their physical surroundings.
Creative Ecology: The living practice of weaving wild, reciprocal,
creative relationships through art (mark-making and/or words).
Your observations of place, your art honouring wild kin, and the words that move you, flow together into a dynamic web of connection, tending the evolution of your wild self. You are both the weaver and the thread.
When We Slow Down Enough to Truly See . . .
The world reveals itself in ways that transform not just our art, but our entire experience of being alive.
This isn't about perfect pages and flawless sketches. This is about remembering your connection to wonder and letting that connection ripple out into every aspect of your life.
🍂 Seeing Your Wild — foundational observation and mark-making
Where you are right now is exactly where you need to be.
🍂 Hearing Your Wild — translating sound into visual language
The symphony that surrounds you, if you listen.
🍂 Touching Your Wild — texture studies and expanded materials
When texture calls to your fingers and colour calls to your heart.
🍂 Sensing Deeply — integration, connection, and future visioning
The wild relationships that continue to unfold, including your relationship with yourself.
Your gentle journey
✨ Gentle Guidance
You will receive a beautifully illustrated compassion-and-curiosity guide with gentle suggestions (never rules) for exploring your wild world, including daily:
Sensory invitations
Reflection prompts
Poems, quotes, and inspiration.
✨ Your Creative Ecology Toolkit
Everything you need to feel confident and inspired:
10+ video tutorials (15-20 minutes each) showing sketchbook spread techniques, sharing thoughts (and probably some extended musings!) and some basic sketching instructions to find the shapes of what you see
15+ example page layouts from simple to complex
Supplies guide with how to use each material
✨ Complete Creative Freedom
Your pages don't have to be scientific, perfect, or even finished. They're not 'nature journal' entries to be compared or evaluated. They're a field guide celebrating YOUR wild world, YOUR relationships, YOUR growing.
You are both the observer and the observed, the thread that binds everything together. Your pages are works in progress, just like you.
What You are REALLY Receiving
Yes, you'll get 30 days of prompts, videos, and references.
But more importantly:
🌿 You'll have LIFETIME ACCESS - work at your own rhythm, return to prompts that call you back, repeat the entire practice in different seasons. This isn't "consume and complete" - it's a resource you can return to again and again
🌿 You'll have FREEDOM - no pressure to keep up, no worry about falling behind, no fixed schedule. Start when you're ready. Skip weeks if life gets full. This practice bends to you, not the other way around
🌿 You'll have PERMISSION - to be imperfect, to follow only the prompts that call, to make art just for you, to go at human pace not internet pace. To take six months to complete what's framed as 30 days. To never "finish" at all, but instead return cyclically
🌿 You'll have THE COMPLETE FRAMEWORK - the three strands (Wild Place, Wild Being, Wild Words), the I See/I Wonder/I Weave approach, all the foundational guidance and philosophical grounding that makes this practice sustainable
🌿 You'll have A PRACTICE - not just content to consume, but a way of being with the world that will serve you for the rest of your life. A method for cultivating presence, wonder, and creative relationship with the wild world
This isn't a course you tick off and forget. It's a companion for your unfolding relationship with creativity, nature, and yourself - available whenever you need it, for as long as you need it. It's a transformation you can fully embody and carry forward.
What You'll Need
A sketchbook or notebook that feels good in your hands
Simple drawing materials (pencil, perhaps some coloured pencils and/or watercolour if you want to explore even more)
A willingness to slow down and notice
Curiosity about the world immediately around you
That's it. Truly.
The magic doesn't come from fancy supplies - it comes from you, showing up with gentle attention to the wonder that already surrounds you.
Why I Created Your Wild World
After my recent solo exhibition, I found myself burnt out and disconnected. I love creating wildlife art from reference, but I needed something more - to touch real things, to ground myself in my actual place, to weave my observations with the words and beings that move me. I needed gentle, slow, compassionate, curious. I needed my whole body, not just my mind.
When a friend suggested this practice might help others too, Your Wild World was born. This is the medicine I need right now - and maybe you do too.
🌟 Let’s get you creating Your Wild World 🌟
Join Your Wild World
A Creative Ecology Sketchbook Practice
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The Self Paced Your Wild World opens soon at $247.00
🍃 Prices are in US Dollars 🍃
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This Isn't Nature Journaling (not in a traditional sense anyway)
Your Wild World is not a nature journaling course where you'll learn to draw perfect botanical illustrations and wildlife portraits. I'm not teaching you how to identify species or create proper scientific or observational notes.
Your Wild World is a presence practice - a way of cultivating relationship with the wild (including your own wild self) through gentle noticing, sensory awareness, and creative expression. Your sketchbook becomes a field guide to YOU - documenting not just what you see, but how you see, what moves you, what calls to your wild heart.
It is a practice that will open your heart and mind to so much more, empowering your creativity, curiosity, and compassion in profoundly beautiful ways.
Your Creative Ecology:
Three Strands, One Thread
Your Wild World isn't nature journaling or wildlife art or morning pages,
it's a weaving of all these - and something (wildy) more.
Over 30 gentle days (and for years to come) you'll build your Creative Ecology through
three strands of connection:
✨ Your wild Place
Direct observation of your immediate environment through your physical senses. Touch bark, watch light move, listen to morning birds, notice what's actually here with you right now. This grounds you in your specific place and time.
✨ your Wild Kin
Creative connection with wild beings near and far through photographic reference. The creatures that share your place, and those from distant lands you may never meet but can honour through art. This expands your circle of care and wonder.
✨ Your wild Words
The quotes, books, and ideas that are shaping how you see - both the world around you and yourself. Robin Wall Kimmerer teaching you about reciprocity. Sharon Blackie reminding you of your wild elder wisdom. Mary Oliver showing you how to pay attention. These literary companions belong on your pages too.
You are the green-gold thread that weaves these together.
Your unique way of seeing, your questions, your wonder, your growing relationships with the wild world and your own wild self.
For Women Ready to Remember
This practice is open to everyone, but it holds special medicine for women.
For women who've spent too long trying to be productive, perfect, pleasing. For women who've forgotten their own wildness in the service of others. For women ready to reclaim creative time as sacred time.
For women who know, deep down, that reconnecting with the earth means reconnecting with their own wise, wild nature.
Hello, Wild Soul
I see you there, feeling that pull toward the creatures who roam free - the ones with feathers, fur, and wild hearts that mirror something deep within you.
Maybe you've always felt more at home watching birds than scrolling social media.
Maybe you find yourself sketching in margins, wishing you could capture the spirit of the natural world around you.
Maybe you're longing for something more meaningful than the everyday rush - a way to connect with the wild world while nurturing the creative fire that's been quietly burning inside you.
I'm Natalie, a wildlife artist who believes that when we honour our creative wildness, something magical happens. We don't just make art; we remember who we are. We remember we belong to this beautiful earth, and just as she belongs to us.
Join me on this wild-hearted adventure.
✺ Frequently asked questions ✺
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Not at all. This is about cultivating presence and wonder - your unique way of seeing is exactly what's needed.
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Your wild world exists wherever you are, and absolutely accessible to everyone. A single houseplant, light through a window, birds on a power line, a bunch of flowers delivered to your door - wonder doesn't require wilderness (just your own inner wildness).
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As much or as little as feels nourishing to you. Some people spend 15 minutes a day, others lose themselves for hours. You may only have time once week or once a fortnight. There are no rules - only invitations.
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Yes. You'll come away with stronger observation, sketching, and rendering skills - the foundations of all wildlife art. But more than that, you'll have the confidence to trust your way of seeing. While this isn't a technical drawing course, the practice of deep observation and presence it cultivates forms the foundation of all meaningful nature art.
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Perfect. This practice begins with simple graphite - showing you the full range possible with just pencil and paper. Colour is always optional, never required. A sketchbook and pencil are enough to begin.
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Absolutely. Your wild world might be a single houseplant, the view from your window, or cut flowers from the market. You don't need hiking boots or field guides - just willingness to notice and some curiosity.
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The Self Paced version opens in late 2025. You have immediate access to the course, and have it for life! for life!
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As a Founding Circle participant helping shape this course, I want you to be thrilled with your experience. If within the first 7 days you feel this isn't right for you, contact me and we'll work something out.
