Andrew & Emma Groves

Emma and Andrew are creative doers, back-to-landers, woodland managers, conservationists and founders of Miscellaneous Adventures. They use their woodland workshops as a form of guerrilla activism, covertly teaching attendees to open their eyes to the world around them with the aim of inciting behavioural change and a shift in culture to one that centres nature.

www.miscellaneousadventures.co.uk
 
 
 
Naturalists, Andrew and Emma Groves Observing Plants, West Sussex, UK
 
Naturalists, Andrew and Emma Groves Stood In Woodland Foraging, West Sussex, UK
 
Naturalists, Hand Showing Leaf Underside Insect Nest, West Sussex, UK
 
 
Naturalists, Foraging Notebook, Plant Pressing, West Sussex, UK
 
 
Naturalist, Emma Groves, Studying Plants, West Sussex
 
 
Naturalist, Emma Groves, Foraging Mulberries, West Sussex
 
Hands Foraging Nettles With Knife, West Sussex
Naturalist, Emma Groves, Observing Fern Leaf, West Sussex
 
 
Naturalist, Andrew Groves, Sharpening Axe, West Sussex
On-Location Environmental Portrait, Naturalist, Andrew Groves, Sharpening Axe, West Sussex
 
 
Woodsman, Andrew Groves, Crafted Wooden Cup, West Sussex
 
 
Craftsman, Andrew Groves, Crafted Wooden Spoon, West Sussex
 
Andrew Groves, Crafting Wooden Spoon, West Sussex
Andrew Groves, Spoon Carving Tools, West Sussex
 
 
Emma and Andrew Groves, Woodland Management, West Sussex
 
Andrew Groves, Selective Tree Felling Woodland Management, West Sussex
 
Natural History, Andrew and Emma Groves Teaching Son About Plants
Detail of Andrew and Emma Groves' Plant Pressing Note Book
 
 

Craft & Nature

Often I photograph stories that lie at the intersection of craft and nature. I document the dynamics of how we humans have learnt to work with materials to create useful and beautiful objects, pulling on my working understanding of both the natural world and the process of craft.

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