Art/Nature/Well-being

Collaborations with Writer,

Deborah Templeton

"We are, so many of us, lost in the wide world; perhaps the trees can help us to dream our way home." (Deborah Templeton, The Dreaming of Trees)

The Way Through the Woods: Art-Nature-Wellbeing (2019).

This day-long event brought together artists, researchers and others to explore the rich potential of arts and mindfulness in woodland settings. It was a collaboration between Deborah Templeton for the University of Huddersfield's Mindfulness and Performance Research Project, and Grant Lowe of the National Trust at Hardcastle Crags. Highlights included a keynote address by author Jay Griffiths and a live multimedia performance of The Dreaming of Trees by Deborah Templeton, composer Monty Adkins and video artist Zoe MacLean.

https://vimeo.com/326887238/276267605b

one thus gone (2019) is a contemplative woodland trail at Hardcastle Crags in West Yorkshire comprising eight small poems by Templeton on a trail commisioned and co-designed by Grant Lowe, then of the National Trust. The poems are published along with mindfulness prompts in the chapbook one thus gone: Contemplations for Woodland Walking (2020) with illustrations by painter John Britton.

Mindfulness Audio Trail on the Love Exploring app (2021).

The one thus gone poems also feature on Love Exploring's mindfulness audio trail along with fuller audio guidelines for contemplative practice in parks and woodlands; all set in music by Monty Adkins. This work was developed for Love Exploring by Templeton and Lowe, and is now located in parks and nature reserves across England.

You can listen to each of the one thus gone poems and invitations below.