A leading landscape architect and horticulturalist, Marian Boswall specialises in historic landscapes. She is the co-founder of the Sustainable Landscape Foundation, and has just published her book ‘Sustainable Garden’. Her design practice, Marian Boswall Landscape Architects, focuses on regenerative sites with long term sustainability and connectivity at their core. Her projects invest in the land for the long term, such as the Charleston centenary project here, and sculptural installations in a heritage landscape at the Watts Gallery. Wellness is deeply embedded in her ethos, and in early 2020, she gave a TedX talk on how our gardens can care for us and the earth.

Toni is an artist, consultant, mentor and facilitator working across multiple disciplines. London born and Devon based, she has been working at the intersection of social, ecological and culture change for 25 years. She creates spaces where grit, grief, messiness, and laughter are welcome and where new kinds of wisdom and power can emerge.

Some of Toni’s recent work includes: Radical Ecological Pedagogies (From the Roots Up) with ULEX and facilitating for Mycelium Group. She is a curator at The Emergence Network, leading on Vulture: Courting the Otherwise in a Time of Breakdown and is a tutor and mentor on Call of the Wild and professional trainings with WildWise.

Wild wool felter - crafting felt and wool items made in South Devon with British wool, inspired by the wild landscapes of Dartmoor

Some nettle tops are flowering
But the ferns are still unfurling
Hawthorn blossom be at it's highest hour
And the wheel just keeps on turning

Learn new skills using local resources and materials. Educate yourself with craft that our ancestors once used to practise.

Bring back the power of the handmade, empower yourself to make your own clothes. Using natural fibres, let us reconnect to ancestral wisdom to create beauty that is sustainable and tending to the care of the land and future generations.

Emilio Mula is… Moedular. Emilio is a multidiciplinary artist based in UK. He explores the  intersections betwen art, ecology, science and living beings through Children of Compost, a collaborative project cultivating partnerships among artists and scientists to create art experiences:

In our creative explorations we seek to amplify the voice of natural phenomena, the voice of everything that interacts with us–constantly, invisibly, without our awareness; tides, humidity, magnetic fields, photosynthesis, biogeochemical pathways. We translate these forces into images, real-time audiovisual installations and interactive experiences. We do this in order to call attention to the fact that it is time for us all to engage in a more intimate dialogue about these complex interrelationships... the forces that do actually govern our lives.

Kara is a tracker and facilitator with a passion for radical, decolonial approaches to tracking, ancestral skills and land regeneration. As an educator, Kara devised ‘Radical Nature Connection’ as an approach and co-holds this strand of work at the Ulex Project in Catalonia. Kara delivers courses and lectures on Masters degrees on radical approaches to nature connection, rewilding and ancestral skills (with a focus on tracking, foraging and trees) at the Centre for Alternative Technology, Schumacher College and independently. She spends the Winter months working in conservation forestry, restoring ancient woodlands and is part of a team that runs the 350-acre Cambrian Wildwood project, which is restoring wild habitats and creating access to immersion in wild nature for marginalised groups in the Cambrian foothills of Mid-West Wales.

Sasha is founder of Hegeways:

‘At Hedgeways we provide a number of different services including; hedge laying and management of hedges, scything and meadow management, education and training and rural crafts.

We embrace a culture of care, for the environment, ourselves and those we are working with. We pride ourselves on our holistic approach to land management.

We also prioritise diversity in our work, we believe that diversity fosters resilience so we work to encourage ecological diversity in our land management practices and we also aim to create a culture within traditional rural skills that embraces a diversity of practitioners.’

‘I have spent a lot of time communing and listening to the land while I have undertaken vision quests, wandered in the woods, sat with the first nations senior lore women of Australia, and experienced rites of passage work through different lineages around the world. These experiences have greatly informed and inspired the stories that I write and share and my desire to be of service with them.’ Samantha has been a professional storyteller, guiding transformational journeys and holding ceremonial space using story, ritual, and creative expression for 10 years. She has studied with some of the best storytellers and mythologists in the world including Martin Shaw (School of Myth), Roi Gal-or (Emerson School of Storytelling), and David Novak. Samantha has had the privilege of sitting with aboriginal aunties in Australia and listening to their cultural wisdom and stories over a life-changing year. This has had a huge influence on her and her work. She is currently working as Professional Storyteller, a Transpersonal Art Therapist, and as a Ceremonial Guide.

Chris Salisbury founded WildWise in 1999 after many years working as an education officer for Devon Wildlife Trust. With a background in the theatre, a training in therapy and a career in environmental education, he uses every creative means at his disposal to encourage people to enjoy and value the natural world.

Chris directs the acclaimed Call of the Wild Foundation programme for educators-in-training as well as Where the Wild Things Are, a rewilding adventure based at Embercombe in Devon. He is also a professional storyteller (aka ‘Spindle Wayfarer’) and is the co-founder and artistic director for the Westcountry and Oxford Storytelling Festivals.

Chris lives in the enchantment of the Dart Valley, Devon, UK with his lovely wife, two pesky children, and an astonishing dog called Dexter.

Hannah Fletcher works with and researches the many intricate relationships between photographic and not-so photographic materials. Intertwining organic matter such as soils, algae, mushrooms and roots into photographic mediums and surfaces. Fletcher questions the life cycle and value of materials by incorporating waste from her studio and workshops back into the system of making. Working in an investigative, ritualistic and environmentally conscious manner, she combines scientific techniques with photographic processes, creating dialogue and fusions between the poetic and political. In 2019, she set up The Sustainable Darkroom; an artist run research, training and mutual learning programme to equip cultural practitioners with new skills and knowledge to develop a more environmentally friendly analogue photography practice.

As an enactment of repair, I turn towards the landscape to give the tender and fragmented pieces of myself the emotional freedom to dance. I land, listen, flow, bond, morph and expand; reclaiming my body from the systems and stories of control that have separated her from nature. I trust that whatever vital emerges in me is a gossamer cord weaving me intra the universal moving consciousness. I share my discoveries through the mediums of performance, social practice, collage, and writing.

In my socially engaged work, I foster integrative embodied resilience for trauma through movement education, community ritual, & performance work. My personal experimental practice and research is what supports my capacity to work publically and socially in this way which I have been doing in one form or another since 2004.

Sam Lee plays a unique role in the British music scene. A Mercury prize nominated singer, highly inventive and original arranger, folksong interpreter, passionate conservationist, song collector and creator of live events. Sam’s work as an artist has shaken up the music scene breaking boundaries between traditional and contemporary music and the assumed places and ways folksong is appreciated. Sam's voice has helped challenge what old songs hold for us today. With his latest critically acclaimed and Mojo Album of the Month ‘songdreaming’, he's summonsed up a truly compelling and emotional album that takes his work to yet another level. In 2021, Sam released his debut novel 'The Nightingale, notes on a songbird' telling the epic tale of this highly endangered bird and their place in culture, folklore, music and literature throughout the millennia. Sam's a regular radio and TV broadcaster, film soundtrack composer and has provided songs for several major feature films. As a change-maker in the music industry he is a co-founder of Music Declares Emergency. 𖤓DATES TBC𖤓