What does it mean to be in dialogue with a garden or to have a symbiotic relationship with the landscape around you? In these stark times of entangled polycrisis, how do we notice the ways in which our everyday landscapes - our commute to work, our own pocket square of garden - profoundly shape us and provide us with creative sustenance?
Using the garden at Heeled In as a creative starting point, this day-long workshop with Marchelle Farrell will be a relaxed and creative day of exploring writing through all our senses, the relationship between our inner and outer worlds and an opportunity to reimagine and reshape it from the inside out and the outside in.
All writers of any experience (or none at all!) are welcome. A three course lunch is included.
£175
About Marchelle Farrell
Born in Trinidad and Tobago, Marchelle has spent the last twenty years attempting to become hardy here in the UK. She has trained and worked as a consultant psychiatrist and psychotherapist, and is deeply curious about the relationships between our external landscapes and internal ones, the patterns that are reenacted in the human relationship with the land, and how they might be changed. When not neglecting it for the care of her young children, or her work in the community, Marchelle 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 memoir, ‘Uprooting’, won the 2021 Nan Shepherd Prize for nature writing, and was shortlisted for the Wainwright Prize for Nature Writing in 2024.