Art in Nature: Posts from the archive

1981 to 1996

Here is something fresh and new, unlike anything I’ve published before. It could be called a permanent home for ephemeral art, an artist’s book, or a collectors item.

It’s a private publication with a small print run. Art in Nature reveals art work that has lain hidden for decades, together with an intimate story of nature connection and collaboration. And now, it’s available to share with you.

Come with me to the edge of the sea where the water and I sculpt together on different beaches, with different sand.

Discover how sound guides me into the rhythms of the tide as I work.

Enjoy times of surrender to sea and tide.

Join me in an intimate disclosure of inner processes, retrieved from old journals.

Traverse a range from fast work to slow,  curiosity to discovery, and grief to ecstasy.

Much of the work is solitary. At times it expands into collaborative projects, from a women’s collective in San Francisco to 100 women on the beach at Te Henga. Always it involves collaboration and relationship with the elements of nature: sand, sea, wind, and fire.

The A4 pages sit between cream textured covers that open wide. The publication is not a blog, although it was first shared on Substack under that title. Unlike a blog, it has a continuous narrative, an unfolding story.

Your art in nature always has such ancient echoes of another time and place for me, a time when we expressed our sacred connection with earth, sea, and sky with huge working in the land. Temples to nature and the cosmos. — Peta Joyce

You may dip in and leaf through for refreshment and inspiration in the company of images of wild nature. Or you may read continuously through the whole for deep immersion in this pilgrimage.

. . . such an Earth-loving memory full of gentle, yet sumptuous language and imagery. Your sharing of your long-time practice of ritual to give thanks to Papatūānuku for all her gifts is a reminder of the healing power of taking time for simple acts of thanks. —Richard Jakob-Hoff

How to buy

Price $50 plus postage.

This is the cost of printing, with no financial return to me.

You are welcome to add a koha in recognition of my work.

Note: The black button at the bottom is easiest to use.

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