About Lotti Brown

Hello! I'm Lotti Brown. Very pleased to meet you...

I'm an artist, illustrator and keen nature journaler. I feel my best and do my best work when I get to spend time in nature and feel connected with nature...

I believe that we're meant to be in nature - and as humans we're meant to be living our lives as part of the natural world.

I worry that we're giving up our souls to technology and concrete and forgetting that we're part of nature...

I worry that we're losing our feeling of personal connection with the natural world.

I want to live in a world where we live at one with nature, we feel connected to nature, love nature, and live in a way that we feel we have a sense of guardianship and protection for that thing we love.

I believe that nature journaling can be a reminder of our connection with nature and the natural world in our busy daily lives...

Nature journaling helps us:

• to create feelings of calm energy and belonging that we feel when we're out in nature and stopping to notice the details - that tiny flower, an interesting leaf, a busy ant, an unusual seedpod...

• when the wonders of nature become our whole world for just those few moments, and the busy world of our everyday lives fades from our consciousness...

• to remember our essential connection with nature and how feeling part of the natural world nourishes our souls - it's part of who we're meant to be!

As a tiny child I loved to draw - and I liked to draw things that were actually in front of me. My mum was so surprised to get up, one morning, and find me (aged 3 or 4) engrossed in making a detailed drawing of a buttercup I was holding in front of me.

Drawing continued to be part of my life and as a teenager, I was always immersed in my art homework. My parents made me do my art homework last - but that meant I got to spend all my left-over time on it. I actually did my A-level art in my spare time - and won the school prize for art in my final year.

As a young adult, I liked to create calligraphic pieces for family and friends. I think this helped me get a job drawing maps and plans. I adored that job and felt so lucky to be paid for what was, basically, painting and drawing.

When I caught a flu and cough in 2007, I had no idea how my life was about to change...

I got ill and I didn't get well again for years. I was diagnosed with post-viral fatigue syndrome (ME/CFS). I lost my job drawing maps and plans and the life that went along with that. And I started a long quest for health...

Alongside an enormous number of diet and lifestyle changes, most of which I still continue to follow, I had to search for a way of making an income from home - not nearly as easy as today...

I started out in interior and garden design online and then became a textile designer and artist, becoming more recently a craft-file designer.

In 2024, I started studying Natural History Illustration online at the University of Aberystwyth - which is lots of work but I'm loving it so much!

I'm a highly-sensitive introvert, so I love working from my home. It's perfect for me!

I've always loved creating all of my artworks and designs inspired by nature - I love a wiggly line and an organic shape.

I've also started creating art just for fun again in my nature journals - I love it so much I'm now part of the WildWonder Foundation nature journal educator program so that I can share with you all the best nature journaling techniques and ideas.