Author: Emma Butler

  • Sea Campion

    Sea Campion

    Growing up in Cornwall, sea campion is one of those plants that’s like an old friend. I’m happy every time I see the white petals and puffy, delicately pink-veined calyx. I used to sit next to clumps of these as a teenager at my favourite secluded sitting place, just off the North Cornwall coastal path.…

  • New Artwork on the Map

    New Artwork on the Map

    July saw the start of an exciting new phase of the Isle of Man Nature Journal as the IOMNJ map was introduced to school children and used as a stimulus to discuss our differences and a prompt for them to create their own art. It’s wonderful to see the very different interpretations they came up…