Creating with Nature is a practical guide to making art with natural materials, revealing the creative possibilities of the world around us.

Explore botanical printing, natural pigments and dyes, cyanotypes, charcoal, frottage and more through accessible techniques and inspiring hands-on projects.

Learn how to transform leaves, flowers, earth, minerals and branches into pigments, prints, photographs, drawings, sculptures and ephemeral artworks. Step-by-step guidance encourages you to experiment with colour, texture and form, discovering how natural materials can become both your inspiration and your artistic tools. Make impressions with plants, capture their shapes through light, create colour from gathered materials and explore surfaces through rubbings.

For artists, makers and anyone curious about working creatively with nature, the book combines practical instruction with opportunities for experimentation and discovery. Its seasonal organisation helps you explore the materials available throughout the year, while encouraging you to develop ideas inspired by your own surroundings.

From gathering materials to exploring their unexpected possibilities, Creating with Nature invites you to slow down, look closer and connect with the natural world through making art.