Art & Nature @capecodfairytales.bsky.social The marriage of art and poetry is my passion.
minspo @minspo.bsky.social name's Ivan, 21.
mostly fantasy illustration and character design (PaintToolSai2).
Working on an 'INDIGO' project with tieflings in it.
linktr.ee/minspo
Wildlife Wellbeing Walks CIC @wildlifewellwalk.bsky.social Run by Ros Jones, nature lover. Lived experience of nature-connection benefits. Encouraging positive action for people and planet.
A.F. Harrold @afharrold.com Poet, performer, children's author.
The Imaginary, The Worlds We Leave Behind, Fizzlebert Stump, Greta Zargo and others.
www.afharroldkids.com
@coralrumble.bsky.social @coralrumble.bsky.social Always writing. Caterpillar Poetry Prize (18), Spark! School Book Awards (23and25). Shortlisted for a UKLA Award (23). Bookoholic. Justice, mercy, humility.
Jools Wilson @bearsgetcrafty.bsky.social Old crone. Draws. Cuts up paper
Illustration, art, nature, cats, crafts, gardening, archaeology, history, poetry
bearsgetcrafty.com for paper things.
Junkards @junkards.bsky.social Junkards = junk journal pages in ATC form
Caroline Turner @carrie7a.bsky.social Political animal, lover of all things '90's. Labour & Co operative member.
Kimberly Vanderhorst @kymburlee.bsky.social AuDHD author of poetry, prose, and magic.
Thinks you’re lovely and wants to tell you so. Book in link. 📖 🇨🇦 🏳️🌈 she/her/hers
https://linktr.ee/kimberlyvanderhorst
Emma @emmasartworks.bsky.social Artist and nature lover - celebrating the wildlife and wild landscapes of northern England. Author of ‘Hartlepool’s Seaside Birds’. Art and photos are my own unless stated otherwise. Occasionally I write poetry - apologies in advance.
Kendal Museum @kendalmuseum.bsky.social 🏺 Where history and nature meet.
📍 Station Rd, Kendal LA9 6BT
🗓 Temporary opening times: Fridays & Saturdays, 9am - 5pm.
National Trust @nationaltrust.org.uk All kinds of spaces. All sorts of feelings. All at the National Trust.
Jim Blackler @blackler.bsky.social My own phone photos (some in focus) mostly from dog walks in Sussex.
Nina Willburger @drnwillburger.bsky.social Archaeologist | Permanent Representative of the Director, Archäologisches Landesmuseum Baden-Württemberg | Adjunct lecturer State Academy of Fine Arts Stuttgart | Private account, views are mine 🖖
Michèle Brown MA - Earth Painter 〓〓 @earthpainter.bsky.social Visual artist, watercolour, printmaking, paint maker, occasional weaver and musician. Passionate about nature, rocks, prehistory, landscape, and a deep love and respect for our home, the Earth. Based in the far west of Cornwall, UK.
Please no NFT or DM
Dr Kathryn Ferry @seasideferry.bsky.social Historian specialising in seaside, architecture & design. I write books, give talks and do a bit of telly.
Chair @seasidenetwork.bsky.social
Fellow @royalhistsoc.bsky.social
Media agent @pastpreservers.bsky.social
https://linktr.ee/kathrynferry
Ian McMillan @imcmillan.bsky.social I was a New Face of 1984 in Harper’s and Queen magazine
Dom Conlon @domconlon.bsky.social Disabled poet / author. Books nominated for the Carnegie / Greenaway. Inspired by nature and space. UNESCO poet. Award-winning poet. Cake poet.
FrontRangeWildflowers @frwildflowers.bsky.social Photographing wildflowers in Colorado.
Nonnatives may be invasives! iNat: @FRWildflowers
All my photos (CC) by @FRWildflowers.bsky.social, CC BY-NC 4.0 ATTRIBUTION-NONCOMMERCIAL 4.0 INTERNATIONAL https://creativecommons.org/licenses/by-nc/4.0
Tanuki.no.mori @tanukinomori.bsky.social 🇯🇵 Hobbyist photographer & video creator based in Kyoto. I'm pleased to share my experiences with you! Languages: 🇬🇧🇫🇷🇯🇵🍄 All photos taken by me.
YouTube: https://youtube.com/@tanukinomorijp
Boze the Library Owl @sketchesbyboze.bsky.social books, beauty, history, folklore. Dickens lover. married to @littleseamstress. gets dressed up like a pillow so she's always in bed. patreon.com/sketchesbyboze, https://linktr.ee/sketchesbyboze
Botanical Society of Britain and Ireland (BSBI) @bsbibotany.bsky.social Studying, appreciating, recording and conserving our wild plants, and supporting the botanists who care about them.
bsbi.org
#PlantAtlas2020
#100Plants2026
#WildFlowerHour
Direct messages are not checked.
Rebecca Wheeler @botanybeck.bsky.social Obsessed with the natural world, especially #fungi, #wildflowers and #orchids. 🍄
Wildlife gardener and Forest School Practitioner.
Leads @wildflowerhour.bsky.social
Love needle-felting and always trying to recreate my nature finds in wool felt #SciArt
Tearfund @tearfund.bsky.social We are called to live and love as Jesus did, to go to the hardest places, stand with the most vulnerable, and refuse to accept lives being destroyed by extreme poverty.
Thomas L. Vaultonburg @wolftwinthomas.bsky.social 🐺 Wolf Twin Author 📖
Author of VANISHED ROADS
104 haiku on grief, renewal, and attention.
Available now:
https://www.wolftwin.com/product-page/vanished-roads
Yorkshire Wolds Weather @yorkswoldsweather.bsky.social Weather / nature lover , snow , ice and landscapes . Living on The Wolds Way. East Yorks
EmpathyLabUK @empathylabuk.bsky.social Jump into someone else's story!
Social Enterprise. Read stories, build empathy, make a better world. Founders of #EmpathyDay.
Electra Rhodes @electrarhodes.bsky.social Writer. Digger. Rustic. Thief.
Wait...
*Taps mic*
Is this thing working?
Work on/in/with
BBC Radio 4
Best Small Fictions 2023
Emerging Writers The London Library 22/23
W/C
ND
She/Her.
wild-life-ranger @wild-life-ranger.bsky.social All things Natural History Wild Flowers Plants Birds Butterflies Moths Insects and Photography
TMBtrain @hmcclaff.bsky.social Hiker, nature lover, sunny days. Photos my own unless reposts. I don't do AI. No DMs plz.
Groups:
sccan.scot/easterbreichwood/
avnatureaction.wordpress.com
Pondering play and therapy @ponderingplay.bsky.social In a world where play can be seen as frivolous or unnecessary, Julie and Philippa set out to explore the importance of play in our everyday lives. https://ponderingplayandtherapy.com/
Adrianna Amari @4aamari.bsky.social cherisher of this planet / taker of photos / lover of poetry & libraries
Play Scotland @playscotland.bsky.social The national expert in play for parents, policymakers and the play workforce
Email: info@playscotland.org
#PlayEveryday
https://linktr.ee/playscotland
BAPT British Association Of Play Therapists @bapt.info Supporting Mental Health and Well-being, in children and young people. https://linktr.ee/britishplaytherapy https://www.bapt.info/
Abigail Horn @abigailatelier.bsky.social Artist/designer for young audiences, Early Years Atelierista, sometimes lecturer. Pedagogy, art, well-being and play in nurseries and public cultural spaces. EYTS. Museum/gallery educator for V&A, Orleans House and RMG. https://linktr.ee/abigailhorn
Outside Play Lab @outsideplayubc.bsky.social We study children's outdoor #RiskyPlay & #InjuryPrevention. We're a team of researchers, led by Dr. Mariana Brussoni (@mbrussoni.bsky.social), based at The University of British Columbia & BC Children's Hospital Research Institute. www.outsideplay.org
Zoe Ryan @ladyzoia.bsky.social Postdoctoral researcher at the University of Oxford setting up a mental health research network for schools in England. PhD Research Exploring the construct of Intolerance of Uncertainty, and developmental associations with anxiety.
Outdoor Play Canada @outdoorplayca.bsky.social Working with advocates, leaders & organizations to promote, protect, preserve outdoor play in Canada.
📍The trad. territ. of Indigenous Nations of Turtle Island
www.outdoorplaycanada.ca
Flynn in the Forest @forest-flynn.bsky.social Nature and art lover. Films, books, vintage, photography, music. Introverted night owl, working as a Forest school practitioner in a childcare setting.
@springmeisterblu.bsky.social @springmeisterblu.bsky.social 
Paul Round @paulwildlife.bsky.social Assistant Ecologist. Out in nature with my camera and binoculars. Wildlife recording. Photos with Android and Panasonic Lumix DC-FZ82, 20-1200.
Eli~Journal Sauce @eliharlan.bsky.social Creator of the Mixed Media 52 weekly art challenge! Check my feed to see a 7-day run of the challenge🤓
🍇 mixed media 🩷 art journaling ⭐ photography 📷 zentangle czt 💦 travel ✳️ thrifting ⚜️ LGBTQ+ally ☮️ retired in France 🇫🇷
PlayBoard NI @playboardni.bsky.social PlayBoard is the lead organisation for the development and promotion of children and young people's play in Northern Ireland. www.playboard.org
Michael J. Warren @drmjwarren.bsky.social Writer, naturalist, medievalist, teacher. Trustee of Curlew Action. The Cuckoo’s Lea, Bloomsbury, out now. At work on a new book about winter: Hibernal. Marshes. Winter. Whisky.
https://linktr.ee/cuckooslea
www.birdsandplace.co.uk
Muddy Faces @muddyfaces.co.uk Outdoor learning and play specialists.
Inspiration, events and trusted resources for happy, healthy time outdoors.
• Free Outdoor Hub, newsletter and practical kit - find out more:
https://linktr.ee/muddyfaces
George Penney @georgepenney.bsky.social Author of funny books, cultural omnivore. I like tea and cats, not necessarily in that order. I inhale deeply when first stepping in to bookshops and libraries. 🌈
https://linktr.ee/Georgepenney
Chris van Swaay @chrisvanswaay.eurosky.social Ecologist and butterfly expert at Vlinderstichting and Butterfly Conservation Europe
Stephen Frost @sfrost.bsky.social Managing Director, Bridges for Communities, supporting people to live well together
📍Bristol 🇬🇧
Posts on: Bristol, community cohesion & social inclusion, climate & nature, deliberative democracy, public engagement and positive news.
Views my own.
Ros Beaumont @rosbeaumont.bsky.social academic & researcher development; coaching & mentoring; doctoral education; interdisciplinary learning & research; Education for Sustainable Development.
yoga teacher; breathwork coach; nature-noticer + nature connection guide.
Loves exploring. Views own.
Dr Jill Whitelock @jillwhitelock.bsky.social Associate Director, Head of Special Collections at @theul.bsky.social | Co-Chair, @camglamresearch.bsky.social | Fellow of the Society of Antiquaries | Wildflowers, hoverflies, photography
Tammy @tammy999.bsky.social art, collage, drawing
🐕 r ridgeback
account no longer active
https://tammygarcia.substack.com
Duncan Mackay @theduncanmackay.bsky.social Writer, archaeologist, wild swimmer, wild gardener. New book ECHOLANDS -A JOURNEY IN SEARCH OF BOUDICA out now from @Hodderbooks.bsky.social https://www.hachette.co.uk/titles/duncan-mackay/echolands/9781399714143/ Rep. Jim Gill at Felicity Bryan Associates
North Ages @northages.bsky.social Early medieval northern Britain, taking in Picts, Gaels, Britons, Angles and Norse. On this day, feast days, place-names, archaeology news and book releases. Posts by Dundonian bookworm Craig. https://northages.wordpress.com/
Sarah Ross-Thompson - Printmaker @sarahrossthompson.bsky.social I am a Fine Art Printmaker, living and working on the West Coast of Scotland.
I specialise in Collagraphy, printing from hand built collage printing plates.
www.rossthompsonprints.com
St Peter in the Forest, E17. @stpeterintheforest.bsky.social A friendly, community minded, inclusive church set within a forest glade in Walthamstow. All welcome, all the time.
Mr. P. Explores @mrpexplores.bsky.social History teacher, explorer, photographer, podcaster and lover of all things odd, weird and strange! #urbex
http://instagram.com/mr.p_explores
"Mr. P.'s Tales from the Road" Podcast: https://open.spotify.com/show/6ooL4cp95ckRZjnbq6q7Z7?si=b1688e18af12439
Liz Brownlee @lizpoet.bsky.social I'm a children's poet, I love writing animal and shape poems, and the children's poetry world! National Poetry Day Ambassador. Dog Owner. Book reader. Coffee drinker. Friend. Between Bristol and Bath.
Mr_Minchin @mr-minchin.bsky.social Scottish Primary Teacher. Love a vlog and sharing practice. Pupil Voice, Global Goals, UNCRC and Playful Learning. All opinions my own. #EduSky
Dr Adrian Colston @dartmoorac.bsky.social Self-employed ecologist and a rural social scientist worrying about Dartmoor: wildlife, hill-farmers, archaeology, peat & wilding. Also Associate Research Fellow Centre for Rural Policy Research at the University of Exeter And Scilly!
iHanna @ihannas.bsky.social Blogged for +20 years about art, craft and creativity.
Loves free-form embroidery and slow crafts as well as collage, mixed media, art journaling and photography/layout and creating books.
Oh well, I like it all.
Daily Haiku Prompt @dailyhaikuprompt.mastodon.world.ap.brid.gy #DailyHaikuPrompt is a place for haiku, senryu, shahai, tanka, and micropoetry poets to gather and practice their crafts. Please be supportive of one another […]
🌉 bridged from ⁂ https://mastodon.world/@dailyhaikuprompt, follow @ap.brid.gy to interact
SeaWindowCraster @seawindowcraster.bsky.social A photo diary of the sea and sky, taken from my window.
Also known as Mick Oxley, artist, follower of Newcastle United, cycling , wheelchair user, lover of Northumberland.
Jane E. Hall @clothofnature.bsky.social Artist–author creating nature-rooted art and wild tales from her Dorset studio.
Exploring creativity as a healing practice while tending land, story and well-being.
clothofnature.com
Juliet Robertson @creativestar.bsky.social Retired Education Consultant: Outdoor Learning & Play. Former HT. Author: Dirty Teaching, Messy Maths. Blogger: See linktr.ee/creativestar. Churchill Fellow. D.Ed. (Hon) from @qmuniversity.bsky.social. Living with Acute Myeloid Leukaemia. 🏴 
Ann Sei Lin @annseilin1.bsky.social Author of REBEL SKIES & REBEL FIRE Published by Walker Books. Agent: Lina Langlee
The English Oak Project @thekentacorn.bsky.social Our Oak Trees & their Sweet Chestnut chums in our ancient bluebell woodland in the Weald of Kent. Also pictures and facts about trees
twitter.com/TheKentAcorn
https://www.tshirtstudio.com/marketplace/bert-shirts
Alice Ferguson @aliceferguson.bsky.social Co-founder of Playing Out movement for children’s freedom and right to play out in the streets and spaces where they live. Bristol, UK.
#SafeStreetsNow #PlayStreets #YesBallGames #KidicalMass www.playingout.net @playingout.bsky.social
Joolone @joolone.bsky.social Drawing a line from the Royal College of Art to the heart of Early Learning. It turns out there’s nothing ‘child’s play’ about child’s play.
Dr Pete King @dr-pete-king.bsky.social Senior Lecturer at Swansea University and researcher on play and playwork. Co-author of 'The Play Cycle: Research, Theory and Application'. Free videos of the Play Cycle here https://www.youtube.com/@drpeteking1751
Outdoor Play and Learning (OPAL) CIC @opal-cic.bsky.social Helping schools to strategically and sustainably improve their play opportunities. www.outdoorplayandlearning.org.uk #OPALSchools #PlanForPlay
Butterfly Conservation @savebutterflies.bsky.social The official account for UK wildlife charity Butterfly Conservation. Saving butterflies, moths and our environment. 🦋
https://butterfly-conservation.org/
Cover photo 📷: Peacock (Aglais io) - Gundula Vogal
Fiona - Play Scotland @fiplayscotland.bsky.social Play Pedagogy Lead @Play Scotland. Championing children’s right to play in Scotland, inspiring & supporting educators to embrace play-based learning in schools. MEd student, bookworm, and cake lover. ❤️ All views my own! 🙈🙉🙊
Hannah Bourne-Taylor *Author*Bird Campaigner @hannahbournetaylor.bsky.social Bird campaigner. Nature author of #Fledgling about how I rescued raised & released 2 wild birds: one made nests in my hair for 84 days AND Nature Needs You -The Fight To Save Our Swifts about my swift brick campaign to save birds reliant on our 🏡 to breed🪶
Sue Hardy-Dawson @suehardy-dawson.bsky.social 💙Award winning&CLiPPAshortlist, Dyslexic, Poet/illustrator, picture book writer Moon Child #Hachette #WhereZebrasGo @OtterBarryBooks
If I Were Other Than Myself #Troika
#NSTBA18ApestoZebras @BloomsburyBooks @TroikaBooks @AuthorsAbroad_
Lindsay Galvin @lindsaygalvin.bsky.social Author 🐙🐉🚢 MG historical adventures: @chickenhsebooks chapter books: @bigcatreading
and more!
Rep: @litagentclare
She/her
Elizabeth Hutchinson @elizabethutch.bsky.social School Library Specialist #mentor #trainer #podcaster #blogger
Website: https://www.elizabethahutchinson.com/
Three Thoughts Newsletter: https://bit.ly/3BdQEfE
Mike in Oly @mikeinoly.bsky.social Irises, gardening, books, and cats. 🏳️🌈 🌻 🐈
Darrell Wakelam @darrellwakelam.bsky.social Freelance artist and provider of 3D ART workshops & training. Author of the best-selling book Art Shaped. Free ART ideas and projects at www.darrellwakelam.com
Suzanne Axelsson @theplayactivist.bsky.social The Original Learning Approach is a play responsive pedagogy rooted in social justice
Play activist - because if play flows the children will thrive.
Some words that feel important to me
Collective autonomy, decolonisation, wonder, curiosity, joy...
Alan Cleaver @postalpathsguy.bsky.social Author of books on UK footpaths. My book, Postal Paths, is due out April 2025 detailing the route used by rural postmen and women in the 19th and 20th Centuries. I live in Cumbria, UK. Follow me if you love walking footpaths. https://linktr.ee/postalpaths
Emma Mitchell @silverpebble2.bsky.social Sunday Times bestselling author: how nature & craft improve #mentalhealth |
BBC Springwatch | Etsy (silverpebble)| Creative & mental health workshops #AuDHD 🏳️🌈| Agent: Juliet Pickering
samcannonart @samcannonart.bsky.social Artist, illustrator, donkey wrangler (and wrangled by donkeys)
www.samcannonart.co.uk
Watercolours, colour pencils.
https://linktr.ee/samcannonart
Ceridwen Eccles @teacherglitter.bsky.social Teacher ⭐️ Mother ⭐️ Lover of the arts ⭐️
I adore reading and hoard books like a dragon does gold.
Rowena Dugdale @redrubyrose.bsky.social Flora inspired small-batch textiles, plant-dyeing and landscape wanderings.
redrubyrose.com
Natasha Pulley @natashapulley.bsky.social Fiction writer of quite a lot of novels plus some short stories.
Dan Snow @thehistoryguy.bsky.social Creative Director of the world's best History Channel https://linktr.ee/HistoryHit | I host the Dan Snow’s @HistoryHit podcast
Dr Coralie Mills @dendrochronicle.bsky.social I’m a heritage dendrochronologist in Scotland. My consultancy Dendrochronicle undertakes projects in tree-ring dating, archaeology, buildings, cultural wooded landscapes for archaeological, environmental & community bodies.
https://dendrochronicle.co.uk/
@womensartbluesky.bsky.social @womensartbluesky.bsky.social The original & only WomensArt created/ curated by art historian and author PL Henderson
Real art...real artists...No AI
Images © to respective owners
Tamsin Abbott @tamsintheshed.bsky.social Grown from nature, receiving wonder, creating stories in glass. Illustrator in glass of ‘Wild Folk’ with Jackie Morris author.
https://linktr.ee/TamsinAbbott?utm_source=linktree_profile_share<sid=a810bede-44b7-4760-b2fd-cb5693636342
Ruth Swailes @ruthswailes.bsky.social Award winning Early Years and Primary Advisor, lead curriculum developer and author. Unashamedly child - centred EY nerd. Occasionally outspoken rebel with a cause. No unsolicited DM’s unless I know you, thanks.
Ruthswailes.com
Wendy Russell @wendyrussell.bsky.social She/her. Researcher, evaluator & consultant on children's play and playwork, mostly geography and philosophy. Focus on the politics of space for children. Based in Nottingham, Senior Research Fellow at Uni of Gloucestershire, UK #SpatialJustice
Robert Macfarlane @robgmacfarlane.bsky.social Books: Is A River Alive? (May ‘25), Underland, The Lost Words, The Old Ways etc | Films: River, Mountain, Upstream | Music: The Moon Also Rises, Lost In The Cedar Wood, etc
Nature, climate, people.
Prof at Cambridge.
https://linktr.ee/robmacfarlane
Brigit Strawbridge @brigitstrawbridge.bsky.social Wildlife gardening.. love insects, plants, birds, fungi, grass snakes, trees, moths, rivers, caterpillars & all things wild, especially solitary bees, bumblebees... and Dippers!
Art. Poetry. Cornwall
Author 'Dancing with Bees - a Journey Back to Nature'
Lucy Worsley @lucyworsley.bsky.social Hello! I'm Lucy, I'm a historian, I write books like biographies of Agatha Christie and present a VERY GOOD @BBCSounds podcast called #LadyKillers. For ages I was Chief Curator of Historic Royal Palaces, now an Ambassador for the charity.
Gladstone's Library @gladlib.bsky.social A unique residential library in North Wales with beautiful Reading Rooms, Food for Thought restaurant, accommodation and more.
Read, write, rest!
linktr.ee/gladlib
Jarod K. Anderson @jarodkanderson.bsky.social Fiction. Poetry. Nonfiction.
Memoir: Something in the Woods Loves You - Timber Press Sept 2024
New Fantasy Novel: Strange Animals - Ballantine Books Feb 2026
Poetry: The Haunted Forest Trilogy
Podcast: The Cryptonaturalist
https://linktr.ee/jarodkanderson
Lana @lamijo.bsky.social Mostly nature photography, especially wildflowers. Bit of art and history too.
Durham born but living in Yorkshire. Interested in archaeology.
Love a good map! 🦋
Heather @heathermcclure.bsky.social passionate about inclusion, UDL, trauma responsive education; a "chair thrower" whisperer. IYKYK 🤓 #EduSky