Biophilic Art

My Own Journey into Biophilic Art and SciArt

🌿Author; travel, memoir and creative non-fiction, International (2006-2025)

🌿Marlborough Rep. (Top of the South), New Zealand Society of Authors, NZ (2023-2024)

🌿Included in recommended reading list in the first Biophilia Society Locus Playbook (2024)

🌿Social Prescribing Research Associate Center for Arts in Medicine (CAM), Florida, USA (2023)

🌿Developed Caring for the Carer nature connection and wellbeing program, Aus. (2020-2023)

🌿Completed a certificate on Healing with the Arts, USA (2019)

🌿Creator of olfactory art events to evoke emotions and actions for social cohesion (2013-2017)

🌿Gotham Writers' Workshop, Travel Writing I (featuring The New York Times), USA (2009)

🌿Lived for many years overseas in a forest lake-sided, artist community

🌿Grew up contributing to our family engineering consultancy and family-owned art gallery

Marine Magic in Marlborough - Improving Ocean Literacy

Have you been inspired & restored by the beauty of the Marlborough Sounds?

June and July 2025 - The Marlborough Mermaid was spotted sharing sea forest stories in Wellington, Auckland, Waitakere Riange area and at the NZ Marine Science Conference dinner-dance.

27 April, 2025 - The Marlborough Mermaid was recently spotted outside the Marlborough Art Society for Earth Day 2025. She was searching for land and sea forests and shared inspiring tales and underwater photographs.

You can view more of these photos, and a new video, at the upcoming Marlborough Biodiversity Forum on 25 May. Share your own Sounds stories, art and ideas for marine regenerative action. To RSVP for this free event please see Special Events.

Keep an eye open for other marine-related meet-ups happening in Marlborough in May & World Ocean Week in June.

Biophilic Art and the Ocean (30 min.)

Biophilic Art is a process to over come our perceived separation from nature and to incorporate nature into our identity to benefit our wellbeing and that of the planet.

Here Marine Biologist and New York Times best selling author Dr Wallace J. Nichols and I discuss biophilic art and how this relates to belonging, biophilia and blue mind.

(Update 17 June, 2024 - Sadly, Dr Nichols passed away 10 June, 2024. I am grateful he and I had the opportunity for this conversation.)

Background to "Forest Bathing with My Clothes On"

In 2022 I sat down with Dr Vanessa Champion and discussed the joys and challenges of living immersed in the natural world. Here is a 10 min. extract of that conversation.

18 months later I had woven these experiences together capturing journal entries, stories, reflections & biophilic art:

Forest Bathing with My Clothes On: One Woman's Biophilic Journey of Belonging, Wellbeing and Transformation with a Path towards Adapting to Change launched on International Women's Day 2024.

What is Biophilic, Eco-Art & SciArt?

"Art can motivate people to turn thinking into doing" ~ Olafur Eliasson

My Own Journey into Biophilic Art and SciArt

Marine Magic in Marlborough - Improving Ocean Literacy

Have you been inspired & restored by the beauty of the Marlborough Sounds?

The "Marlborough Mermaid Movie" (5 min.)

Art on the Track: A Tale of Two Forests (2 min.)

Pop-up 'Art on the Track' - Sharing Stories of Sea and Land Forests

Biophilic Art and the Ocean (30 min.)

Background to "Forest Bathing with My Clothes On"

Sustainability Development Goal # 14

Ki uta ki tai From the mountains to the sea

Gallery of Biophilic Art