Practice Guide

About Practice Guide

This page leads to other pages, each containing ideas and examples of art practice and theory that can inform art making as experiential learning, indoors and outdoors and as an agent of health and wellbeing. 

Some of the ideas and examples are taken from established artists, theorists, philosophers, scientists and researchers. Some ideas are taken from my art practice and my research. Some will resonate, some will not. The idea is that with lots of stuff to show, you find some thing that means something to you. Whatever you find, take it and make it your own. 

To this end, blog posts will be put up the site over time providing a structured ‘Practice Guide’ to serve as source material which may help your own practice, as an art maker or educator. These will be sequenced and curated post-production to develop ideas, themes and practices is a structured way. Subscribing to my blog will bring these posts to you as I write them and hopefully lead to discourse and conversation.

Each post will also be available as a downloadable pdf. Help yourself, but if possible please credit the source on a Copyleft principle. 

This Practice Guide will eventually develop into three sections, like chapters of a book. They say we all have a book in us. Well this is mine. The three sections will be…

Art as Experience – This develops ideas about how art making can be used as a form of experiential learning.

Outdoors as Art – This develops ideas about how the arts and art making can be used to explore and express our experiences of the outdoors and shows how this can be put into practice.

Arts for Health – This develops ideas and practices that can be used as arts practice and outdoor experience that can promote well being and being well with the earth.