Your essential first step begins with a guided nature walk alongside Tara, learning to shift how you see the world and notice what was always there. This module is about discovery of overlooked materials, new perspectives, and deeper ways of seeing.

Here, you’ll learn to:

• See the natural world through a more radiant, creative lens.
• Discover unexpected materials through mindful walking and observation.
• Reflect on place, travel, and values as part of your creative process.

This module brings you back into the studio to work with what you’ve gathered. You’ll learn a gentle way of unpacking and responding to your materials, allowing patterns, connections, and unexpected relationships to emerge

You’ll develop the confidence to:

• Bring clarity and intention to your collected materials.
• Create rhythm, structure, and flow from what you’ve gathered.
• Discover new meaning by seeing your findings as a connected whole.

This chapter is your invitation to play. You’ll enter an open, exploratory stage where curiosity leads and meaning emerges through doing - shaping your own way of working over time.

You’ll:

• Experiment freely by arranging, assessing, and responding to materials.
• Capture essence through simple documentation and phone photography.
• Explore viewpoint, composition, and negative space as visual storytelling tools.

This chapter invites you to follow curiosity forward and ask, If I do this, what happens next? You’ll move beyond simple editing to reference your materials in new ways, using digital tools to build mood, establish palettes, and ignite your creative voice.

You’ll explore how to:

• Create mood boards that translate inspiration into visual direction.
• Discover and develop colour palettes using digital referencing.
• Use experimentation to uncover and strengthen your personal creative voice.

Here, you’ll begin translating your discoveries into new directions. You’ll learn how to carry palettes onto paper and use them as a springboard for ongoing projects, ideas, and creative keepsakes - with an emphasis on momentum.

You will learn to:

• Transfer developed palettes into open-ended abstract explorations.
• Use discoveries as starting points for future work and ideas.
• Build sustainable creative habits using small, focused pockets of time.

This chapter introduces gel printing as a way to expand and deepen your visual language. You’ll explore gel plate printing alongside stamps, monoprints, and stencils, uncovering new possibilities through repetition and play.

This module helps you to:

• Explore gel printing using plates, stamps, stencils, and monoprints.
• Build layered, expressive surfaces through experimentation.
• Develop a visual language that feels distinctly your own.

This chapter brings your learning together through collage and design, gently reframed through a fresh, liberating lens. You’ll let go of fixed ideas and build depth, texture, and life through intuitive composition.

Here, you’ll learn to:

• Release rigid ideas around collage and design.
• Build depth and texture through intuitive layering.
• Develop design principles aligned with your evolving creative style.

Watercolour is introduced as a playful, expressive way to explore landscape. You’ll learn key supplies, then put them to use through small studies and larger panoramic pieces, guided by intuition and experimentation.

You’ll develop the confidence to:

• Explore watercolour and ink through simple, approachable techniques.
• Create abstract landscape studies at small and expanded scales.
• Trust your instincts around beginning, developing, and finishing a work.

This final chapter focuses on completion and transformation. You’ll learn how to bring work into finished, tangible forms, giving your creations a lasting presence.

This module helps you to:

• Transform existing work into artbooks, folded books, and accordion formats.
• Explore shifts from 2D to 3D through structure, folds, and sequencing.
• Bring projects to a satisfying sense of completion while embracing surprise.

• Bonus 1: Tara’s techniques + creative Q&A
  A curated recording of questions from Inspired by Nature students, answered by Tara while projects were in progress.
• Bonus 2: Create your own rubber stamps
  A hands-on tutorial for making custom stamps that build texture and help develop your own visual language.
• Bonus 3: Turning artwork into products
  Learn how to transform your work into physical pieces you can use, sell, gift, or wear.
• Bonus 4: Behind the scenes — Tara painting
  A quiet, uninterrupted recording of Tara creating a watercolour landscape in flow.
• Bonus 5: Design principles checklist
  Tara’s personal guide to composition, contrast, variation, and negative space.
• Bonus 6: Tara’s image vault
  60 nature images to inspire your mixed-media work, especially when getting outside isn’t possible.