Explore speakers and facilitators
Meet the world-leading experts at the Explore weekend who have generously shared tales, insights and advice from their deep involvement in expeditions and fieldwork.
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Alex Boon
Alex is a nature journaling educator, artist, and “nature connection and creativity influencer” from East Devon, UK.
Ali Foxon
Ali is a geographer, artist and author of The Green Sketching Handbook.
Anna Brewster
Anna Brewster is an East Devon based fine artist specialising in local landscapes. She has been a visual artist and educator for almost 20 years, working across a range of media from photography to paint.
Harriet Fraser
Harriet Fraser is a writer, poet and installation artist whose work focuses on people and place, largely in rural and upland settings, to foster conversation, collaboration and change.
Kirsten Carlson
Kirsten Carlson draws her inspiration from diving in the world’s oceans to sketch sea life underwater.
Nadine Greenhalgh
Nadine is a Biodiversity Partnerships Manager at London based biotechnology company Basecamp Research.
Rob and Harriet Fraser
Harriet and Rob collaborate through their practice somewhere-nowhere, bringing more than three decades of experience of writing, photography and research to their exploration of the nature and culture of place.
Rob Fraser
Rob has been a photographer for four decades. His work now focuses largely on environmental issues and the complexity of rural spaces.
Roseann Hanson
Roseann is a naturalist, artist, and explorer who has been keeping science-based nature and field notes journals for 40 years.
Tony Foster
Travelling slowly, on foot or by canoe or raft, and carrying his painting and camping equipment he makes his paintings in response to what he finds on his journeys.
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