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Kathryn Parsons @kathrynparsons.bsky.social · 20h

I mapped as I walked… generating a gentle tangle of memories, with each knot marking 50 steps.

Overhead, thousands of starlings danced in the evening sky.

At Langdyke Countryside Trust’s Etton Maxey Nature Reserve.

#artistinresidence #place #nature

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Kathryn Parsons @kathrynparsons.bsky.social · 9d

Currently places for a botany-inspired porcelain workshop at Barnsdale Gardens, Rutland. Friday 31st October 2025. shop.barnsdalegardens.co.uk/products/por...

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Jane Goodall Institute of Canada @janegoodallcan.bsky.social · 10d

"You have it in your power to make a difference. Don't give up. There is a future for you. Do your best while you’re still on this beautiful Planet Earth that I look down upon from where I am now."

Those were Dr. Jane's last words, as released by Netflix.

Photo: Katherine Holland

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Kathryn Parsons @kathrynparsons.bsky.social · 9d

Beautiful results created at our botanical ecoprinting workshop! 👏👏👏

Lead by @sarahlambert7.bsky.social & me, with #LangdykeCountrysideTrust

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Kathryn Parsons @kathrynparsons.bsky.social · 13d

Join me for a gentle morning making botanical porcelain decorations from soft porcelain clay! No experience needed.

Fri. 31st Oct 2025, 10am - 12:30pm.
At Barnsdale Gardens, nr Rutland Water LE15 8AH

£60 incl materials & firing

shop.barnsdalegardens.co.uk/products/por...

#porcelainworkshop

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Lincolnshire Wildlife Trust @lincswildlife.bsky.social · 19d

If you missed the Sounding The Wash exhibition, you can still listen to @kathrynparsons.bsky.social's future fable exploring how plants and creatures might respond to all that threatens The Wash.
Listen here: www.kathrynparsons.co.uk/TheWashEvolu...

Kathryn Parsons @kathrynparsons.bsky.social · 23d

Favourite photos from Sounding The Wash at #GibraltarPoint Nature Reserve. With Sophie Marritt, Jane Scobie and @lincswildlife.bsky.social

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Kathryn Parsons @kathrynparsons.bsky.social · 23d

Favourite photos from Sounding The Wash at #GibraltarPoint Nature Reserve. With Sophie Marritt, Jane Scobie and @lincswildlife.bsky.social

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Kathryn Parsons @kathrynparsons.bsky.social · 25d

Friday 19th September - meet the artists at "Sounding The Wash", Gibraltar Point Nature Reserve, Lincolnshire, UK! All welcome!

Call in any time 10am - noon. The exhibition then closes at 1pm.

Huge thanks to all our visitors so far, and the wonderful @lincswildlife.bsky.social!

Kathryn Parsons, Jane Scobie and Sophie Marritt at Gibraltar Point, The Wash, Lincolnshire. The landscape behind the three women is sand dunes, with the sea in the far distance. It's sunny with a few clouds.

A collection of small sculptures sits in a display case, in a window overlooking the Wash, Lincolnshire. The sculptures, made by Kathryn Parsons, are made of objects collected on the strandline.

Work by Jane Scobie at Gibraltar Point Nature reserve, for the Sounding The Wash exhibition. There's a deckchair with strandline shells and seaweed on the floor. From the ceiling a willow and fabric sculpture is suspended.

Poster for Sounding The Wash. The text reads:
Sounding The Wash
Sculpture and soundscapes
Gibraltar Point Nature Reserve
Saturday 13th - Friday 19th September 2025
(closing 1pm on Friday)
Sophie Marritt
Kathryn Parsons
Jane Scobie
With Lincolnshire Wildlife Trust

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Lincolnshire Wildlife Trust @lincswildlife.bsky.social · Sep 13

Opening today at Gibraltar Point - a thought-provoking exhibition inspired by the wildlife of The Wash by @kathrynparsons.bsky.social, Sophie Marritt and Jane Scobie.
Head to the Old Coastguard Station to see some of the exhibits and for a map of the other locations.

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Kathryn Parsons @kathrynparsons.bsky.social · Sep 14

#SoundingTheWash is now open! At #GibraltarPoint Nature Reserve, near Skegness, Lincs, UK until 1pm, 19th Sept '25.

Story, sculpture & soundworks by #JaneScobie, #SophieMarrit & me! With @lincswildlife.bsky.social.

Meet the artists Friday 19th Sept, 10am - noon.
Free entry. Parking fees apply.

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Kathryn Parsons @kathrynparsons.bsky.social · Aug 29

Only 2 places left!! 😃 It'll be a gorgeous workshop exploring #ecoprinting on paper - a day of gentle fun, creativity and nature - between Stamford and Peterborough, UK PE6 7EL

With @sarahlambert7.bsky.social me and #LangdykeCountrysideTrust.

Who wants to join us? 😃 tinyurl.com/3yf9sujs

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Claire Richardson @clairehistory.bsky.social · Aug 27

One sodden cloud doth not end the drought (but the petrichor be divine!) 🌧️

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Kathryn Parsons @kathrynparsons.bsky.social · Aug 26

Gorgeous new workshop! Eco-printing on Paper! 😃
Fri. 3rd October 2025 with @sarahlambert7.bsky.social and me. Join us for a fun, relaxing day coaxing colours from wildflowers!

In partnership with @LangdykeCT. At Swaddywell Nature Reserve, near Stamford, LIncs PE6 7EL.

tinyurl.com/3yf9sujs

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Kathryn Parsons @kathrynparsons.bsky.social · Aug 21

Well that was a marvellous day - with @sarahlambert7.bsky.social leading a cyanotype workshop for a bunch of wonderful creative people - celebrating the beauty of nature on #LangdykeCountrysideTrust nature reserves

#cyanotype #Langdyke #ecoprinting

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Kathryn Parsons @kathrynparsons.bsky.social · Aug 16

Absolutely delighted - these super-fragile porcelain sculptures survived the heat of the kiln!! 😃

Made for "Sounding The Wash" at #GibraltarPoint, UK 13th 19th Sept 2025, with the wonderful @lincswildlife.bsky.social, #SophieMarritt & #JaneScobie

on the bottom left there's a female hand, the thumb and first finger are touching the edge of a tiny white porcelain flower that's part of a larger sculpture. The flower is about 5mm across. It's joined to a cluster of other porcelain flowers, leaves, lichens and shells by long entwined strands of porcelain that create a swirling shape. In the top right there's a glimpse of another part of the sculpture with tiny porcelain shells and leaves on three strands of porcelain making a swirling circle.

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Kathryn Parsons @kathrynparsons.bsky.social · Aug 8

Thank you!

Kathryn Parsons @kathrynparsons.bsky.social · Aug 8

Spend a relaxing day making beautiful images using wildflowers with @sarahlambert7.bsky.social and me!

Cyanotype workshop - Thursday 21st August 2025
near Helpston, Peterborough, Cambs PE6 7EL

More info & tickets: www.eventbrite.co.uk/o/62290773383

In association with #LangdykeCountrysideTrust.

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Kathryn Parsons @kathrynparsons.bsky.social · Aug 7

Cyanotype bunting, created to celebrate the biodiversity on #LangdykeCountrysideTrust's nature reserves, by me & @sarahlambert7.bsky.social

#artfornature #cyanotypes #meadow

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Kathryn Parsons @kathrynparsons.bsky.social · Aug 6

Exciting! Sounding The Wash brings together artists working across sculpture and sound, exploring the abundant life in and around The Wash.

Meet the artists Friday 19th September 10 -12 noon.
With @lincswildlife.bsky.social #SophieMarritt #JaneScobie and me!

#SoundingTheWash #TheWash

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Kathryn Parsons @kathrynparsons.bsky.social · Aug 5

Come & spend relaxing, fun day making beautiful images using wildflowers & different #cyanotype techniques. With artist & botanist @sarahlambert7.bsky.social & me!
Thurs. 21st August 2025, near Helpston, Peterborough, Cambs PE6 7EL. Tickets £66 including booking fees tinyurl.com/5amj4k5v

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Kathryn Parsons @kathrynparsons.bsky.social · May 15

#ThreeGoodThingsThursdays - my three good things for this week are... Cuckoos calling, Terns nesting and festoons of Flag Irises! 😃
I love this time of year!
#TGTT

Yellow Flag Irises in dappled light, under willow trees. The flowers are lemon yellow and in full bloom. They're held on long tall stems with long thin straight leaves.

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Kathryn Parsons @kathrynparsons.bsky.social · May 2

Cuckoos, spawning trout and Cetti Warblers on the long- forgotten “Westings Meadow” - now the site of the Maxey Cut.

@environmentagency.blog.gov.uk.web.brid.gy

#storiesfromalostmeadow

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Erica McAlister @flygirlnhm.bsky.social · Mar 19

IT’S THE BEST Season!

Beefly season is upon us folks #BeeflyWatch

Yesterday they were spotted at @kneppwilding.bsky.social Tomorrow, my garden 🤓

Please go spotting these little beauties & add your records to either dipterists.org.uk/bee-fly-watch or #IRecord

@dipteristsforum.bsky.social

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Kathryn Parsons @kathrynparsons.bsky.social · Mar 25

Saw my first of the year yesterday, in N. Cambridgeshire 😃

Kathryn Parsons @kathrynparsons.bsky.social · Mar 22

Well that's not something I've done before! Rubbing foil in to old carvings - to understand their lines. The carvings are near impossible to see except in bright sun!

On old bridges on the historic location of Westings Meadow (a long-forgotten place).

#WestingsMeadow #senseofplace #socialhistory

A female hand rests on a piece of tin foil, on an old stone bridge that's covered in lichens. The foil shows an impression of a carving of a hand, a bit bigger than Kathryn's hand. The stream flowing under the bridge can be seen in the top third of the photograph.

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