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Moving Qi: Mediation/Painting Workshop with Diana Taylor | Holland Park
This month’s guest artist is Diana Taylor.
Diana’s workshop brings together meditation, QiGong, and painting. Drawing on over a decade of engagement with Eastern philosophy and Taoist traditions, the session explores ways of thinking that emphasise the interconnected nature of all things.
The workshop begins with a short guided grounding meditation followed by a gentle Qigong session. These practices help participants become aware of breath, movement, and the surrounding environment.
In the second part of the workshop, participants will work with painting, responding to botanical life observed in Holland Park. Diana encourages personal approaches while offering guidance throughout the session.
Expect a calm and reflective experience that combines movement, observation, and creative practice within the landscape of the park.
No previous experience of Qigong or painting is required.
Daisy Green has generously provided the space and refreshments are included in the ticket. Proceeds from ticket sales go directly to the artist.
Artist Bio:
Diana Taylor (b. 1977, UK) lives and works in London.
Her practice-based PhD, completed in partnership with the William Morris Gallery and Sheffield Hallam University in 2023, explored notional time and the ways the past continues to shape the present. This research was further developed during a short-term fellowship at The Huntington in California in 2025.
Recent solo exhibitions include Flotsam and Jetsam at Don’t Look Projects, Los Angeles (2025); Borrowed Time at Bobinska Brownlee, London (2024); and A Ghost for Today at the William Morris Gallery, London (2022).
Selected group exhibitions include Their Floating Attention at Florence Trust, London (2025); Decennial at Artseen Contemporary, Nicosia (2025); A Landscape of Chance at SLQS Gallery, London (2024); Stable at Bobinska Brownlee, London (2024); and A Painting Show at Benjamin Parsons Gallery, Oxford (2024).
Residencies include JOYA, Spain (2025); 18th Street Arts Center, Santa Monica (2024); CCA Andratx (2018, 2012); The Factory Floor at Modern Art Oxford (2015); and the Abbey Scholarship in Painting at the British School at Rome (2011).
Taylor graduated from the Slade School of Fine Art in 2010 with an MFA in Painting.
https://www.dianataylor.co.uk/
Mindful Movement & Mudra Embodiment in Nature with Aditi Kaushiva |Artist Run Workshops at Daisy Green Holland Park
As the year draws to a close, artist-in-residence Alan McFetridge and movement artist Aditi Kaushiva invite the public to slow down and reconnect through embodied movement in nature.
Mindful Movement & Mudra Embodiment in Nature blends Indian classical dance, mudras, and mindful awareness to harmonise body, breath, and earth. It is a timely invitation to ground ourselves as winter approaches.
This closing session of the CEP Nature Workshops aligns with London’s Green Roots Fund vision: deepening community participation in urban green spaces and supporting the well-being of Londoners through creative, nature-based practices.
Whether you're a seasoned artist or just starting on your creative journey, these workshops will inspire and empower you. Don't miss this opportunity to connect with like-minded individuals and nurture your creative spirit!
Come with an open mind and a willingness to explore. Let's create magic together!
Pauline Rafal’s artwork and personal letters as research.
November’s Guest Artist: Aditi Kaushiva
Mindful Movement & Mudra Embodiment in Nature is an embodied journey that blends Bharatanatyam (Indian classical dance), mindful movement, and creative storytelling. Through breath, gesture, and community dance, participants are invited to attune to the five elements and explore the symbolic mudras of blooming flowers, flowing rivers, and migrating birds.
The workshop closes with joyful, open movement, celebrating our connection to self, each other, and the living rhythms of the Earth. No prior movement experience is required — just curiosity, openness, and a willingness to explore.
No prior experience is needed — just curiosity, imagination, and a willingness to explore.
About Aditi Kaushiva:
Aditi Kaushiva is a movement artist and founder of Move to Thrive, a wellness practice rooted in movement, mindfulness, and nervous system care. With a foundation in Indian classical and folk dance — beginning Bharatanatyam at the age of seven and later exploring Garba, Ghoomar, Jazz, and Contemporary — she blends traditional South Asian philosophies with modern movement to promote emotional well-being, cultural connection, and joy.
After 15+ years in dance, a high-pressure career in banking, and building an 8-figure e-commerce business, Aditi experienced severe burnout. Returning to movement not as performance but as medicine, she developed a practice that fosters resilience, creativity, and community.
She has recently facilitated workshops for Google Cloud, Creative Mornings, Wellnergy Festival, Theatre Deli, St. Margaret’s House, and the London LGBTQ+ Community Centre. Her approach is both playful and profound, creating inclusive spaces where people can move, feel, and thrive together.
🔗 move-to-thrive.com | Instagram: @move_to_thrive
Soft Landing: 11:30 - 12:00
Background and Introductions: 12:00 - 12:30
Walk and Movement: 12:30 - 13:30
Guided mudra movements led by Aditi
Group Work: 13:30 - 14:00
Reflection, sharing and coffee
Farewells and Photograph of the Group
Booking Essential - Tickets here
Press Release PDF - Download
Sensing Earth | Artist Run Workshops at Daisy Green Holland Park
Sensing Earth is a guided workshop designed to help you develop your intuition, enhance your sensory awareness, and connect more deeply with the natural world. Through a blend of reflective journaling, mindful walking, and creative exercises, this session offers a refreshing way to spark your creativity and nurture your connection with nature and yourself.
This workshop, led by Alan McFetridge, an artist and researcher. Raised on a farm in Aotearoa he draws on a life time of landscape practive and how he interacts with the environment and uncovering more profound layers of creativity and resilience. Whether you're seeking inspiration for a new project or a moment of calm reflection, Sensing Earth invites you to slow down, remember older ways of spending time and learn from your surroundings.
Whether you're a seasoned artist or just starting on your creative journey, these workshops will inspire and empower you. Don't miss this opportunity to connect with like-minded individuals and nurture your creative spirit!
Come with an open mind and a willingness to explore. Let's create magic together!
Pauline Rafal’s artwork and personal letters as research.
October's guest artist is Pauline Rafal with Threads of Memory
Exploring the paths we follow with our feet and with our mind.
Experiencing the interconnected past, present, and future while walking in Holland Park.
My talk will present artworks that have evolved from participating in Alan McFetridge's "Sensing Earth" walks.
The works stem from journaling, walking, and exploring family history and its connection to Holland Park, and centre around questions related to our understanding of 'being in the present'; how the past and the future impact our day-to-day life; and how connecting with nature can help our mind find straight paths amongst meandering thoughts.
About the artist: Pauline Rafal develops pen and ink drawings, linocuts, and artist's books that focus on human connection and disconnects. Her projects explore themes related to memory, the experience of change, and the relationship between an artist and their creations, often using weather as a symbol for emotions.
In her collaborations, she connects music, poetry, psychology, and art, developing projects such as "The Legends of Robert Schumann" with pianist Annie Yim, and "Relational Space in Therapy" with psychotherapist Darek Lukawski.
Pauline is a graduate of BA (Hons) Book Art and Design at London College of Communication, University of the Arts London.
Soft Landing: 11:30 - 12:00
Background and Introductions: 12:00 - 12:30
Walk: 12:30 - 13:00
Independent Walking and Sensing
Group Work: 13:0 - 14:00
Journaling, Pauline’s presentation, reflection, sharing and coffee
Farewells and Photograph of the Group
Booking Essential - Tickets here
Press Release PDF - Download
The CEP Is Now Live on Substack - A New Chapter in Ecological Publishing
I'm excited to share that the Centre for Ecological Philosophy (CEP) has found a new home on Substack. This marks a major step forward in opening up the conversations we've been having around fire, land care, and ecological resilience to a wider global audience.
As many of you know, CEP began with a simple question: What does it mean to live in relation to the Earth, not apart from it? Over time, this question evolved into a working platform—part research lab, part publishing studio—where artists, scientists, land practitioners, and storytellers could collaborate on shaping a new ecological vision.
Our first major initiative, Nature (Mother), is a 36-month program that invites contributions from across the globe. From mountain ranges to river systems, deserts to deltas, each work we gather aims to enrich a shared atlas—one that celebrates diverse cultural perspectives on nature as a living, nurturing force.
This move to Substack allows us to:
Share ongoing work and releases from Nature (Mother)
Publish reflections, updates, and essays from contributors
Host digital releases and connect with our growing community
You can expect regular posts that highlight new projects, behind-the-scenes development, and insights from the field. Think of it as a living journal of our collective learning—grounded in place, rich with voices.
If you've followed my work on fire, land, and photography, this is where we go deeper—together.
for free and paid subscriptions please follow this link :https://centreofecologicalphilosophy.substack.com/
With care,
Alan
Intersectional Grammar: Trees - Hackney Gallery Closing Reception
Regenerative Burn with Indigenous Fire Knowledge, 2019. Photograph by Alan McFetridge
You are invited to the Hackney Gallery’s
closing reception.
Sunday 8 Dec 2024, 12:00 to 16:00
(Drinks and Refreshments)
at Hackney Gallery,
1 Lower Clapton Road, E5 0NS
Curatorial Statement by Jacqueline Ennis-Cole
Forests and Trees are our more-than-human relatives. We share fifty percent of our DNA with them. Trees breathe out (oxygen) the same element that we need to breathe into our lungs for our collective survival. Trees and forests remove carbon dioxide (or greenhouse gas) from our polluted atmosphere and then store that carbon in the soil, in their root systems, in the structure of their leaves and stems, and in the trunks of the tree. Forests and Woodlands are home to diverse species, and although we do not always dwell in these nourishing places, we still visit and pay our respects to these storehouses of vitality. Forests and Trees are places of refuge, places of escape, places to slow walk, and places to listen. All of the participating photographers/artists, located throughout the UK and Europe, have a unique visual stories to communicate. They have chosen to share their personal narratives through their unique visual grammars rooted in the ancient craft of storytelling. This community of photographers/artists all warmed to the invitation to present their ‘unframed’ work within a Hackney community gallery.
Trees have been a symbol of peace for thousands of years. Whilst this is true - at present there are at least 50 countries who are to some degree impacted by or involved in extreme war, high conflict, or turbulence. Trees offer us solace and an opportunity to reflect on our planetary condition.
Afghanistan
Bangladesh
Benin
Brazil
Burkina Faso
Burundi
Cameroon
Central African Republic
Chad
Columbia
Democratic Republic of Congo
Ecuador
Ethiopia
Ghana
Guatemala
Haiti
Honduras
India
Indonesia
Iran
Iraq
Israel
Jamaica
Kenya
Lebanon
Libya
Madagascar
Mali
Mexico
Mozambique
Myanmar
Niger
Nigeria
Pakistan
Palestine
Peru
Philippines
Puerto Rico
Russia
South Africa
Somalia
South Sudan
Sudan
Syria
Trinidad and Tobago
Turkey
Uganda
Ukraine
Venezuela
Yemen
Schedule for the group exhibition:
Exhibition Opens Monday 25 November to Sunday 8 December 2024; 12.00 to 16.00
Closing Social Event on Sunday 8 December 2024 between 12.00 to 16.00 including Wine,
Beer and Refreshments.
Venue: Hackney Gallery, 1 Lower Clapton Road, Lower Clapton, E5 0NS
Artists:
Wendy Aldiss
Jesse Alexander
Heloise Bergman
Colin Buttimer
Peter Coles
Steve Ferrier
Joanna Furniss
Lucas Gabellini-Fava
Sam Laughlin
Frankie McAllister
Alan McFetridge
Gideon Mendel
Sabrina Merolla
Georgia Metaxas
Miharu Micha
Dawna Mueller
Lotte Scott
Armelle Skatulski
Sabes Sugunasabesan
Intersectional Grammar: Trees - Exhibition
Regenerative Burn with Indigenous Fire Knowledge, 2019. Photograph by Alan McFetridge
Curatorial Statement by Jacqueline Ennis-Cole
Forests and Trees are our more-than-human relatives. We share fifty percent of our DNA with them. Trees breathe out (oxygen) the same element that we need to breathe into our lungs for our collective survival. Trees and forests remove carbon dioxide (or greenhouse gas) from our polluted atmosphere and then store that carbon in the soil, in their root systems, in the structure of their leaves and stems, and in the trunks of the tree. Forests and Woodlands are home to diverse species, and although we do not always dwell in these nourishing places, we still visit and pay our respects to these storehouses of vitality. Forests and Trees are places of refuge, places of escape, places to slow walk, and places to listen. All of the participating photographers/artists, located throughout the UK and Europe, have a unique visual stories to communicate. They have chosen to share their personal narratives through their unique visual grammars rooted in the ancient craft of storytelling. This community of photographers/artists all warmed to the invitation to present their ‘unframed’ work within a Hackney community gallery.
Trees have been a symbol of peace for thousands of years. Whilst this is true - at present there are at least 50 countries who are to some degree impacted by or involved in extreme war, high conflict, or turbulence. Trees offer us solace and an opportunity to reflect on our planetary condition.
Afghanistan
Bangladesh
Benin
Brazil
Burkina Faso
Burundi
Cameroon
Central African Republic
Chad
Columbia
Democratic Republic of Congo
Ecuador
Ethiopia
Ghana
Guatemala
Haiti
Honduras
India
Indonesia
Iran
Iraq
Israel
Jamaica
Kenya
Lebanon
Libya
Madagascar
Mali
Mexico
Mozambique
Myanmar
Niger
Nigeria
Pakistan
Palestine
Peru
Philippines
Puerto Rico
Russia
South Africa
Somalia
South Sudan
Sudan
Syria
Trinidad and Tobago
Turkey
Uganda
Ukraine
Venezuela
Yemen
Schedule for the group exhibition:
Exhibition Opens Monday 25 November to Sunday 8 December 2024; 12.00 to 16.00
Closing Social Event on Sunday 8 December 2024 between 12.00 to 16.00 including Wine,
Beer and Refreshments.
Venue: Hackney Gallery, 1 Lower Clapton Road, Lower Clapton, E5 0NS
Artists:
Wendy Aldiss
Jesse Alexander
Heloise Bergman
Colin Buttimer
Peter Coles
Steve Ferrier
Joanna Furniss
Lucas Gabellini-Fava
Sam Laughlin
Frankie McAllister
Alan McFetridge
Gideon Mendel
Sabrina Merolla
Georgia Metaxas
Miharu Micha
Dawna Mueller
Lotte Scott
Armelle Skatulski
Sabes Sugunasabesan
Private View | 19 October | Holland Park | LONDON
Please join us in celebrating the 2024 Autumn with the Daisy Green Collection in Holland Park, London.
The private view is the first event of a 12-month Artist Residency with Daisy Green Collection and Artist and Curator Justin Hibbs. It is also my pleasure to be adjacent to artist Robyn Litchfield’s solo exhibition of sublime landscape paintings.
To begin the residency, a special edition of prints from my book ‘On The Line’ have been made. The photographs were made during the Boreal forest autumn of 2016 in the post-fire environment of Fort McMurray, Alberta, Canada.
Date: 19 October, 2024
Time: 5 - 7:30 pm (last entry 6pm)
Location: Daisy Green Holland Park, London W8 6LU
On The Line - Fundraising Print
21cm x 29.7cm on 70g Kozo Paper
Unframed - £30
Open Studio and Fundraiser | 28th, 29th September 2024
Open Studio & Fundraiser
Dates: September 28th & 29th, 2024
Time: 12 - 5 pm
Location: Studio 107, Brickfield Studios, 30 Brickfield Road, London E3 3UQ
I’m excited to welcome you to my open studio event, where I’ll showcase my latest work exploring fires’ role in ecology, climate change, and human history. The studio is packed with current and forthcoming material.
This is a great chance to experience my creative process, see my latest projects up close, and engage in conversations around the role of art in climate resilience and environmental stewardship.
Print Viewing Area
What to Expect:
A look into my ongoing series on landscape fires and their range of impacts on the environment, from catastrophe to healing.
Discussions on how art can contribute to the global climate conversation.
Refreshments and informal conversations.
Fundraising - Bringing the project to the people of Fort McMurray.
On The Line - Fundraising Print
21cm x 29.7cm on 70g Kozo Paper
Unframed - £30
Part of [ S P A C E ] East London’s Open Studios Event
This open studio is part of a wider East London event spanning 11 buildings and featuring over 300 artists. Organized by [SPACE], the September Open Studios 2024 offers an incredible opportunity to explore diverse artistic practices in the area. Visitors can tour multiple creative spaces across Bromley-by-Bow and beyond, gaining insights into a variety of mediums and ideas.
For more information about the larger event and other participating artists, visit the SPACE website.
Print Socials | Kotahitanga | Wednesdays 6-8pm | Launch 22 May
Print Socials aims to counter this narrative and support ways to empower the artist's vision and economy.
Closing Ceremony | Forro Dance
Join us in celebrating Earth Day and being together while enjoying a unique Brazilian Forró dance led by Pé Descalço Dance School.
Forró Dance involves a wordless conversation between the couple dancing and the music, resulting in perfect harmony. The dance style is rich in movement and musicality and heavily influenced by ballroom dancing.
Seed Stories: Three perspectives of the 2016 Fort McMurray Wildfire
Join us as we explore our understanding of severe fire beyond the exhibition's imagery to collectively reorientate towards a regenerative relationship with the land, fire and each other.
Songs of the Dead | An Earth Day Exhibition at Lauderdale House, London.
Join us in exploring the aftermath of this century’s most intense urban fire and the rapidly changing relationship between human expansion and the fierce face of fire. In May 2016, Fort McMurray, Alberta, the hub of Canada’s oil industry, was upturned by wildfire. The multi-billion-dollar disaster that raised entire neighbourhoods and drove 90,000 from their home in a single afternoon.
Seed Stories | Genocide, Truth Telling & Displacement
Left to Right: Photographs by Tyler Eash, Joesph Barrett, & Carlotta Cardana.
Welcome to the first Seed Stories evening, where photography is explored as a manifestation of consciousness. Artists Joseph Barrett, Carlotta Cardana, and Tyler Eash share their perspectives on truth-telling, displacement, and sovereignty as we look at the opposite ends of the genocide spectrum with photographs from Palestine and California.
The evening includes a presentation of their work, followed by informal discussion, music and drinks.
Programme
Gathering and Greeting 18:30 - 19:00
Presentations Begin at 7pm - Each artist presents for 15/20 mins
Informal Discussion at 8pm
Closing at 9pm
Artists Biography’s
Joseph Barrett.
Photographs by © Joseph Barrett.
Is a photographer whose process combines traditional and modern methods, predominantly working with analogue cameras and various printing processes to develop an image before digitalisation.
Driven toward storytelling and narrative through portraiture and still life, the context of Joseph's works revolves around social studies, with a focus on human interaction and behaviour.
In 2023, he self-published my debut photo book 'Rock Soft', a series of images made in Palestine depicting the inexplicable warmth of local interaction contrasted against the political landscape.
Instagram:
@__josephbarrett
Website:
Carlotta Cardana
Photographs by © Carlotta Cardana
Is an Italian editorial and commercial photographer based in London. In her personal practice, she looks at how communities are affected by economic upheaval and oppression, indigenous communities, the relationship between humans and their environment and at how one’s identity is shaped by the society and space he/she inhabits, such as among minorities or subcultures.
Carlotta’s work has been awarded and exhibited in numerous international galleries and festivals and is included in the collection of the National Portrait Gallery and the Parliamentary Art Collection. She is a regular contributor to publications such as Bloomberg, T: The New York Times Style Magazine, The Telegraph Magazine, The Guardian Weekend.
Instagram:
@carlottacardana
Website:
https://carlottacardana.com/
Tyler Eash
Photographs by © Tyler Eash
Tyler Eash (1988, Turtle Island), is an artist, poet, and performer working in London, UK, and the forests of the Maidu in the Sierra Nevada Mountains of so-called California. As a queer indigenous 2 Spirit, their work engages the medium of identity as the last frontier of true sovereignty. In their practice, the body is presented as a working document, an avatar to represent the desires of a post-capitalist, post-colonial, post-gender self, becoming an interface between their Indigenous world view and the anglo-colonial realms of high culture. Eash explores this frontier in a post- disciplinary fashion, using photography, sculpture, drawing, painting, film, music, poetry and performance as a means to reclaim space and an identity at odds with the contemporary.
Selected solo exhibitions include All the World’s Horses, NıCOLETTı, London, UK (forthcoming 2023), Channel 1, Further, San Francisco, CA, TI (2022); Marysville, Oh Holy Land, Kupfer Projects, London, UK (2022); Marysville, Oh Holy Land, Four Fourteen Gallery, Marysville, CA, TI (2022); Lilies in the Headlights (with Roxman Gatt) curated by Giulia Menegale, London, UK (2021); Loreum, NICOLETTI, London, UK (2020), and Mountain, B. Dewitt Gallery, London, UK (2019).
Instagram:
@tylereash
Website:
https://tylereash.com/