Artist statement

Hello!

I am an award winning nature writer and performance poet working with digital media.

I experienced terminal lucidity when I nearly died in a car crash. This enhanced my spiritual connection with the natural world. I have a close relationship with nature.

My mission is to encourage kindness to nature. The best way I can do this is by expanding human connection with the natural world through stories that entertain and enchant. Some of my stories are true (Into My Arms and The Trapped Doe) and some are inspired by the natural world and folklore (The Headless Horseman). All celebrate the beauty and joy of nature.

I tell my stories through writing (page/radio/stage) and performance. My theatre work is multi media with film and photography as a cinematic backdrop and static puppets on set.

Whatever their ultimate medium, my stories start in words. Sometimes as I write, images unspool in my head and I know the piece is destined for the stage with film as a backdrop. This is how 110 m.p.h., The Trapped Doe and Into My Arms were created.

Pivoting on a series of four poems about my relationship with the earth (MotherEarth: sorrow), my first poetry collection Motherhoodlum (Jawbone 2022) signposted the “nature direction” of my work.

My work developed, animating nature and enchanting with folklore and legend, for example The Headless Horseman (commissioned and published by Cranborne Chase National Landscape and Chase & Chalke in 2024). My most recent publication Into My Arms (a novella in verse, Road Song Books 2026, shortlisted for the international Maya Poetry Book award) develops themes of nature's sentience.

My WIP is a memoir about my connection with nature. It's exciting and I guess a bit shocking in a nice way. It'll be out on agent sub soon.

Alongside my wriitng and performance I love engaging with communities. I created the concept of public community poems after running a couple of workshops. It is amazing how meaningful an exchange can be when you ask a complete stranger to write a few words about what landscape means to them; there is a shift in that person - an opening of doors and budding of pride. The first community poem I did was for Bournemouth Writing Festival in 2024. Passers by committed their hearts and souls to the work, which was completed in a single day. The end result was an explosion of people’s loves and hopes, a creation with a life of its own.

I started my podcast Nature Talks With Humans because I was hearing many stories of connection with nature from people. I wanted to amplify these stories and preserve them as evergreen because they enhance the message of nature's sentience. The podcast is going well: https://naturetalkswithhumans.transistor.fm/

I use film and photography across social media, too e.g. Instagram https://www.instagram.com/p/DFaz7i7suwF/?next=%2F) and TikTok https://www.tiktok.com/@estellephillips/video/7369328762011372833

Thank you for your interest in my work. Byeee!