Clare Hewitt (b. 1983) is a photographic artist based in Birmingham, UK. After completing a degree in Law at Oxford Brooks University, she went on to study Commercial Photography at Arts University Bournemouth. Her work has been exhibited at venues including Landskrona Foto Festival, the National Portrait Gallery, Open Eye Gallery, and the Royal Photographic Society, amongst others. In 2019, Hewitt was the recipient of the GRAIN Bursary Award. Her clients include New Yorker, Guardian, Photoworks, Oxfam, New Statesman, and The Wire. Hewitt also works as an Archivist and a Senior Lecturer in Photography at University of the West of England, Bristol. https://clarehewitt.co.uk

For 30 years Carolyn has worked with people who don’t consider themselves artists, building skills, confidence and connection. Her focus on natural materials nurtures curiosity and wonder to better care for ourselves and the natural world. @camocarolynmorton

Danielle is a multidisciplinary artist and workshop facilitator based in Birmingham, working across paper making, printmaking, and animation. Over the past four years, she has developed skills in paper-making, repurposing both organic and paper waste material through independent and collaborative methods. Her process is rooted in traditional handmade techniques enhanced by contemporary materials and tools, allowing for the creation of bespoke artist papers. https://linktr.ee/paper_print_motion Image: © Megan Reddi

Emily Macaulay is the founder of Stanley James Press, a small design company specialising in the design and production of printed goods. The majority of her work involves helping artists, photographers and organisations design printed materials, bespoke books and exhibition spaces. She is passionate about the more unusual and complicated forms of print, creating work that engages audiences and experiments with different ways to produce things. She is also trying to find ways to be more sustainable and is constantly trying to understand the processes involved in the outcomes she produces in order to advise her clients of ways to produce more environmentally considered products. www.stanleyjamespress.com

Alice Fox is a process-led textile artist based in Bradford, who works with natural fibres and gathered materials, employing natural dyes, stitch, weave and soft basketry techniques. Image © Carolyn Mendelsohn.

She mentors and teaches worldwide. Her work currently explores ideas of one-anotherness, interconnectedness and ecologies of care. Her first book, 'Thin Places', was published by Canongate in Spring 2021, for which she was awarded the Butler Literary Award 2022, and highly commended for the Wainwright Prize for Nature Writing 2021. 'Cacophony of Bone' was published by Canongate in May 2023 and was longlisted for the Wainwright Prize for Nature Writing 2023. She lives in the west of Ireland with her family. @kerrinidochartaigh

Marchelle Farrell is a writer, medical psychotherapist, and amateur gardener, born in Trinidad and Tobago, but having spent over 20 years attempting to become hardy here in the UK. She is curious about the relationship between our external and internal landscapes, the patterns we reenact in relation to the land, and how they might be changed. When not neglecting it for the care of her children, she spends much of her time getting to know her country garden in Somerset, and writing about the things the garden teaches her about herself. Her debut book, 'Uprooting', won the Nan Shepherd Prize for nature writing, and was shortlisted for the Wainwright Prize for nature writing. www.marchellefarrell.com

Jessica J. Lee is a British-Canadian-Taiwanese author, environmental historian, and winner of the Hilary Weston Writers' Trust Prize for Nonfiction, the Boardman Tasker Award for Mountain Literature, a Banff Mountain Book Award, the Taiwan Open Book Award, and the RBC Taylor Prize Emerging Writer Award. She is the author of three books of nature writing, 'Turning', 'Two Trees Make a Forest', and 'Dispersals', the children's book 'A Garden Called Home', and co-editor of the essay collection 'Dog Hearted'. She has a PhD in Environmental History and Aesthetics. Jessica is the founding editor of 'The Willowherb Review' and teaches creative writing at the University of King's College. She lives in Berlin. www.jessicajleewrites.com Image © Ricardo A. Rivas