Welcome to the blog, friends! Here you’ll find posts about projects I’ve been working on, science communication and illustration.
Bringing a touch of summer to a Salisbury street corner
As seen in the Salisbury Journal on 10/04/2024. In a bid to cheer up a neglected street corner, Salisbury resident Michael Stroud teamed up with his step-daughter, award-winning illustrator and meadow ecologist Vicky Bowskill, to install an eye-catching meadow mural in this disused shop window. This kind of educational artwork is the ideal use for…
Introducing Inklusive Nature CIC
I’m excited to introduce you to Inklusive Nature CIC! Those of you who have been following my work for a while will know that what began as a blog about my PhD research grew into a thriving SciArt business that I have been running for the last 2 years alongside my part time PhD. Now,…
From Macro to Micro
The ‘From Macro to Micro’ project was an innovative collaboration between the Open University, Natural England, Dudley Council and King Edwards VI College that used an exciting mix of science and art to connect students with their local geological landscape. A group of A-Level geology and art students had the opportunity to visit the Black…
How does nature affect neurodivergent experience?
Everybody has an internal sense of how they are feeling – hungry, anxious, tired, happy, cold, need the toilet. It’s called interoception, our 8th sense. People experience and process their feelings of interoception in different ways, and sometimes we may be challenged or confused by these feelings. That’s entirely normal. However, this sense can be…
Embracing inclusion through soil, soul and society
Time in nature offers a host of health and wellbeing benefits but green spaces in the UK are not equally welcoming for everyone. Barriers may be physical, cultural, educational – and all too often, invisible. Dadima’s CIC is a community walking group in the Chilterns, created by Geeta and Subash Ludhra to provide a welcoming…
Forget the calendar: haymaking must reconnect with the shifting seasons
From the sepia farm in my grandmother’s scrapbook to my PhD research in our remnant floodplain meadows, hay and wildflowers have been a golden thread of family culture. But it’s time for a change in our haymaking habits… Read the full story at Inkcap Journal Find out more about this research at Hay Days: restoring…
Hay Days: restoring our floodplain landscape through haymaking
This article first appeared on the Floodplain Meadows Partnership website following a talk at their 2023 conference ‘Restoring meadow communities: plants, soils, people’. Audio abstract (5m32s) Floodplain meadows are an ancient part of the multi-functional agricultural landscape of Britain that provide not only food and fodder, but also essential services such as flood prevention and…
Accessibility in #SciArt and #DataViz
I’ve recently discovered the excellent Data Viz Today podcast with Alli Torban and was delighted to discover episode 63 with Frank Elavsky on how to integrate accessibility into DataViz with tons of great advice and resources. As a neurodivergent scientist and visual communicator this issue is close to my heart and deserves considered attention in…
Voices from the Floodplain: a poem
This free verse poem is composed from the words of many floodplain farmers who took part in interviews and questionnaires as part of my Hay Days PhD research project into the management of floodplain meadows for sustainable farming. Arranged and read by me, Vicky Bowskill, and presented along with a montage of images from project…
Book review: Meadow, the intimate bond between people, place and plants
Author: Iain Parkinson. Photography: Jim HoldenKew Publishing (5 May 2022)ISBN-10 : 1842467476, ISBN-13 : 978-1842467473 This book is truly a delight – and I’m not just saying that as I have the privilege of being included in it’s pages, perched atop a bale of sweet meadow hay! I was just a…
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