Over summer I took my sketchbook with me everywhere. I started loosely and quickly illustrating and taking notes of the things I saw around me. I feel that drawing in situ really helps me engage with the subject in a way that taking a photo doesn’t. This carried on for the whole of summer, some of the drawings were successful and some of them were less so but all of them were useful in taking my thinking further on the subject of human interaction with nature. Taking in some human elements such as the umbrella or the wall was also quite interesting to me. I started writing on the bottom of the images to help engage the audience and create a narrative with the illustrations. So my broader line of inquiry at this point was still how do humans interact with nature, which made me question my own interactions with nature. I was reading and watching a lot of David Hockney interviews and I found the way he speaks about looking and drawing particularly exciting. With the aim to carry on really looking and illustrating I wanted to see how I could use nature as a tool and device within my practise. So the next step for me here was wanting to use nature as a medium.