Our objectives are:

• to understand that creativity, drawing and mindful connections with nature can lead to calm, balance, happiness, achievement, and a feeling of fulfilment.

• to understand the importance of ‘stopping’ and quiet ‘nothing’ time for mindfulness and creativity.

• to learn to experience nature fully and start noticing.

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• to use these mindful moments to start collecting your own nature moments to be the inspiration for your artwork. 

Elder is one of our smaller hedgerow trees, growing wild in many places and self-seeding often.

It’s a tree that humans have used for thousands of years - and has a lot of folklore and superstition attached to it…

It’s thought that the name ‘elder’ comes from the Anglo-Saxon words ‘ellaern’ meaning ‘hollow tree’ and/or ‘aeld’ meaning fire, as the hollow twigs were used to spark a fire into life by blowing air into it.
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The Anglo-Saxons also used the words ‘eller’ and ‘kindler’ to refer to the wood of the elder, so we can see how the word ‘elder’ started to evolve.