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Vicky Bowskill
@vickybowskill.bsky.social
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Award-winning illustrator, environmental scientist and tutor 🌼🎨🌍
Founding Director of Inklusive Nature CIC: connecting science & society through inclusive visuals
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#SciComm #SketchNotes #VisualThinking #ActuallyAustistic
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Vicky Bowskill @vickybowskill.bsky.social · Oct 7
Thrilled to share that my work has been recognised with 2 new awards!! 🏆✨

ILLUSTRATION ARTIST of the year 2025-26
Prestige Awards London & South East (2nd year in a row!)

EXCELLENCE IN ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCE ADVOCACY - UK
2025 Global Excellence Awards

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🌳 Forest Bathing is all about experiencing nature with all your senses, on your own terms wherever you are.

I'm delighted to be able to offer my followers a 10% discount on this 8 week CPD course with code VICKY10% at checkout 🍃🌳

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SketchNote summary of the Feelgood Forest Bathing course expereince
October 10, 2025 at 8:13 AM
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Thrilled to share that my work has been recognised with 2 new awards!! 🏆✨

ILLUSTRATION ARTIST of the year 2025-26
Prestige Awards London & South East (2nd year in a row!)

EXCELLENCE IN ENVIRONMENTAL SCIENCE ADVOCACY - UK
2025 Global Excellence Awards

inklusivenature.com/2025/10/06/a...
Cartoon and photo montage summarising the post.
October 7, 2025 at 7:56 AM
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Happy #GeodiversityDay folks! Check it out 👇🎨
October 6, 2025 at 7:52 AM
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It's been a busy month working on various projects that bring together people, research & nature through art. More to follow on those 🎨🍃

On Tues I found a pocket of time in my happy place: doodling in the forest 🌳✏️

I highly recommend their lemon drizzle cake too! 🍰🍋

#sketchnote #forestbathing
Doodle of Druids Oak at Burnham Beeches Vicky sitting on a felled tree and doodling in a sketchbook
August 31, 2025 at 10:18 AM
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Amazing time on the Creative Community Fellows retreat last week! Huge thanks to @derbymuseums.bsky.social and @artscouncilengland.bsky.social for the opportunity. Lots more to come out of this 🎨✨🍃
Group photo of 20 or so community members standing on the grass
July 20, 2025 at 7:32 PM
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Have you ever thought about how artists and scientist view the world? 🌍👀 Find out more about this @openuniversity.bsky.social research & download the illustrated leaflet 🎨👇
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#SciArt #SciComm
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June 27, 2025 at 9:33 AM
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I had a fab day creating this #SketchNote at the @openuniversity.bsky.social Challenge Us! Showcase on Monday. An inspiring collection of projects, displays, talks & conversations showcasing the power of collaboration between charities, businesses and academia in tackling real-world challenges ✨🌍🎨
SketchNote summary of the event by Vicky Bowskill
June 11, 2025 at 10:57 AM
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I enjoyed today’s @conservoptimism.bsky.social webinar: “From Stories to Systems: How Storytelling Can Influence Policy”, with a special focus on how African youth voices are shaping conservation policy and action🌍🍃

#SketchNote #SciComm #BiophilicConversations #StorytellingForChange
SketchNote of the event
May 27, 2025 at 3:40 PM
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It begins! We had a warm and inclusive welcome from the Creative Communities Fellowship team this afternoon. With the upcoming residentials, coaching and jamouts, the next few months are going to rock! ✨🎉🎨🍃
SketchNote of the event
May 21, 2025 at 7:26 PM
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A brilliant blog about a fantastic & meaningful day of celebration & connection. Honoured to have been a part of it 🍃
May 20, 2025 at 7:14 AM
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Had a fab time this week becoming a Mental Health First Aider with @openuniversity.bsky.social & @mhfaengland.bsky.social . It is so important to normalise talking skilfully about mental health, especially amongst minoritised communities. Highly recommended! 🍃🧠👇
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#SketchNote
SketchNote from the course
May 16, 2025 at 9:53 AM
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I'm excited to be a part of this year's Creative Community Fellows! Can't wait to get started on this creative, changemaking adventure 👇✨🎨
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UK Creative Community Fellows Welcomes 20 New Leaders Using Arts to Transform Communities » NAS
United Kingdom – Derby Museums, The Bowes Museum and NAS are proud to announce the…
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May 16, 2025 at 9:41 AM
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I'm just off out for a spot of nature connection and to post my 4th and final letter to this year's #STEMpenpal with Letters to a Prescientist.

It's been lovely getting to know a keen young future scientist and sharing experiences. I highly recommend doing it!
Photo of letter to be posted
May 2, 2025 at 1:38 PM
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Great Sustainability Research Festival at The Open University this week! We heard from staff across the OU to explore what is working well & find new opps for future work. It's also a great chance to catch up with friends! 👇🎨🌍
societal-challenges.open.ac.uk/blog
#SciComm #SciArt #engagedresearch
Sketchnote summary of the Sustainability Research Fesitval
May 1, 2025 at 12:20 PM
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Mitti Matters in the Meadow. Find out about this doodle-powered collaboration that saw school groups, practitioners and community groups helping to shape future research on #floodplain meadows by co-creating a funding bid 🎨🌼✏️ 👇
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#SciComm #SciArt #engagedresearch
Visual summary of linked blog post
April 23, 2025 at 7:16 AM
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#EarthDay2025 is all about the Power of Collective Action. It's an appropriate time for Inklusive Nature to have joined @Conservation Optimism's Network Of Optimists #ConservationNOW community! Together we can do more 🌍🍃💚💪

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Screenshot from the linked webpage for Conservation NOW
April 22, 2025 at 7:13 AM
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Pillowy mounds of freshly plucked dandelion petals, destined to be dandelion syrup. I love this spring treat 🍯🤤. Of course I made sure to leave plenty of blooms for the bees 🐝🌱☀️
April 20, 2025 at 10:50 AM
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Another lovely Dadima's walk @vickybowskill.bsky.social campaignerkate.wordpress.com/2025/03/18/i...
Inklusion in the Chilterns
Dadima’s stroll through the Chilterns was the perfect antidote to a late night home, after six hours in a train from Glasgow with noisy rugby fans. It had been a short night but I felt revive…
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March 18, 2025 at 12:30 PM
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Happy #NeurodiversityCelebrationWeek! ✨🌈
We recently celebrated our #Neurodivergent staff & students at Open University at 'SpoonFest: a festival of neurodivergent projects & passions' #SketchNote 🎨✏️

Read about what, why & how much this meant to our community 👇
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SketchNote summary of the day
March 17, 2025 at 8:09 AM
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Inklusive Nature CIC is 1 today!🥳
It's been an amazing year. I've worked on some really inspiring projects with a range of brilliant people. Find out more on my blog, link in bio. Huge thanks and leafy gratitude to everyone who has shared the journey! 🙏🍃🎨
SketchNote reads 'Happy 1st birthday Inklusive Nature'. Photographed in a sketchbook surrounded by pencils, ivy and plum blossom
March 16, 2025 at 8:27 AM
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An #InternationalWomensDay shout out to all the amazing humans out there who identify as women or non-binary, in all your fabulous variety. Together we are a much needed and unstoppable force. Keep shining your light, my friends ✨🌈🍃🙏
cartoon of five diverse women and/or non-binary people
March 8, 2025 at 7:20 AM
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We had an amazing time yesterday at *SpoonFest 2025!🥄✨A celebration of #neurodivergent projects & passions in a safe space designed for our #neurospicy community, whilst exploring what a neuro-inclusive event feels like. The vibe was relaxed, respectful and fantastically freeing!
🥄 ✨🎧😎 #SketchNote
SketchNote of the event with snapshots of the in person exhibition, including, ethical clothing, vintage dolls, weaving, zines and dog showing.
March 1, 2025 at 7:31 AM
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I was excited to receive my 2024-25 sticker from my Letters to a Pre-Scientist #STEMpenpal. The sticker was designed by GM, the winner of this years sticker competition. I just had to include it in my doodle journal 💡✏️

Find out more about these amazing young scientists at
prescientist.org
Photo of a doodle journal page with the letters 'LPS', an envelope and the 2024-25 light bulb sticker from Letters to a Pre-Scientist
February 26, 2025 at 4:46 PM
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Found a new stash-busting #yarncraft project! A spot of french knitting, some garden wire and a twig from one of our cherry trees and we have a new sign for Inky HQ 🍃🧶
Photo of a sign made out of knitted letters reading Inklusive Nature
February 20, 2025 at 8:29 PM
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I found my way out into the Chilterns for some #ForestBathing today and was really enchanted by this intermingled moss and ivy. Such wonderful textures and shapes, in so many shades of green! 🍃
#NatureConnectedness
Photo of moss and ivy leaves
February 16, 2025 at 4:32 PM