Ellie Green, Dorking (2026)

🌱 Botanical Artist | 🐞 Creative Guide | ⭕️ Women's Circle Leader | 🦅Shamanic Apprentice
A place where Botanical art, Creative practice and Seasonal living come together to Nourish the Soul. “Welcome to a space of seasonal rhythm, shared circle, and wild remembering…”

A place where botanical art, creative practice and seasonal living come together to nourish the soul. Alongside my own work, I tak

e on selected commissions that align with my nature-centred approach. Creative Guide

With over 17 years' experience in Arts Education and an MA in Art & Design in Education, creativity has always been at the heart of my work. In 2016 I founded Surrey Art School, building a thriving creative community that connected people with Nature through art for almost a decade. Although the school closed in 2025, my work continues through online courses, workshops and creative experiences that help others rediscover their imagination and creative confidence. Women's Circles

I am a certified Wild Woman Project Circle Leader and have been holding seasonal women's circles for the past two years. These gatherings offer a gentle space for women to reconnect with themselves and eachother through creativity, reflection, community and the wisdom of the seasons. The Path of the Healer

Alongside my creative work, I have spent the past eight years walking a personal path of healing and initiation. As a Hedgewitch, I draw inspiration from plants, folklore and seasonal living, while my studies in shamanic practice continue to deepen my relationship with the natural world. This path quietly informs everything I create, weaving together creativity, healing, ritual and a deep respect for the living Earth.

25/08/2026

I’M AN ARTIST & I AM IN AN AVOIDANT RELATIONSHIP WITH MY ART. ARE YOU?

So I’m coming on here for a bit of accountability today and to share something I would never have shared with you before…

🫣 I actively, incredibly rigourously, avoid making Art

It’s true and I’m not afraid to tell you,

✅ During ‘term time’ it’s very easy for me to lean into the excuses - I’m drained from the day job, I’m too busy, It’s too much faff to get it all out, I need to write a newsletter and so on and so forth.

BUT

🌴 I’ve been on holiday from my day job for 5 WEEKS NOW

5 weeks of - I’ll do it tomorrow, I’m too tired, but I need to clear the garden, oh I have to take the cat to the vets etc etc

So I’m calling myself out today.

🌿 I have 5 HOURS before a zoom I have to do tonight, I’m showered, I’m fed, it’s a beautiful day…

Will I manage to get over myself and get some ART done today?

🕰️ You’ll have to check in tomorrow if you want to find out!

In the meantime, let me know what kind of art you make / do and let me know if this concept of an avoidant relationship with it resonates with you…

22/08/2026

SOUL JOURNALING 🌱

💭 I think soul journaling is something I made up. Correct me if I’m wrong and you actually do it too…

📝 It’s a sort of sketchbook, come nature journal, come tome of research inspired by signs and symbology that’s whispering to me in the natural world both around and within me.

📖 The truth is sketchbooks and most especially a big old blank page have always TERRIFIED ME 👻

🐦‍⬛ Perfectionism has such a hold on me that it was getting right in the way of curiosity & play

🕊️ This is something that I’ve been studying intently in my students and within me since I first became an Art teacher some 17 years ago (WTF where did those 17 years go?!)

🪶 So a couple of years ago I hit a HUGE block with my creativity. After all those years of teaching I burnt out and lost all sense of inspiration.

🛑 I stopped teaching pretty much altogether. I took a sabbatical and hoped some rest and taking the pressure off ‘performing’ creativity would bring my darling inspiration back to me,

🌈 side note: there’s nothing more terrifying than creative burnout when you’ve build your whole life / career / personality around making & teaching art, trust me.

🕊️ During that time I did absolutely nothing creatively, but I did do this, soul journaling (though I didn’t call it that at the time) and I did it JUST FOR ME.

❤️‍🩹 And it HEALED ME.

🌾 It broke all the ‘rules’ I’d made up in my mind about creativity. And it FELT so easeful, so flowing, so free.

So now I’m recovered and I really want to share this process with all of you who want to create, regularly but can’t get past the blank page.

🛖 I’ve a workshop coming up later in September for those of you who are local to me…

🎥 But i’m also feeling ready to get my old recording equipment out and get this process down on tape so I can share it more widely.

Let me know if you’d like to join me on this journey 🕊️

17/08/2026

ON HIDING & VISIBILITY 🫣

Just poking my nose out of my cave to ask a question today! I’d love to know if you experience this too…

💃 Is this just the dance of the creative?

Or is there something much deeper at play here…

That when I feel truly SEEN 👁️ the after effect is a huge wave of FEAR…

🦇 And so I pull inwards and hide away for a few days until things settle down and I feel SAFE again.

And so the cycle continues…

I come out, I shine, all is well, I’m creative, I’m in my flow…

And then something within me screams HELL NO

🫣 And I draw back in and hide again.

I’m feeling so done with this particular pattern and want to find a way out of the web.

So I’d love to hear any strategies to overcome this pattern and I’m curious to hear your thoughts too.

I’m so ready to crack this nut 🌰

01/08/2026

✨Sprinkling a little WILD MAGIC into your Saturday folks…

🐦‍⬛ This one’s for the EARLY BIRDS, who, like me, rise with the shine and are most likely already on their third cup of tea.

🌱 Those who may have just completed their morning potter, speaking kindly to the veggies on their plot and listening to the first chorus of the day.

🦌 This in an invitation for you, to slip into your wild skin…

🕸️ To come on a journey with me and to meet with the guides as your side - your wild kin.

🪶 I’m ever so excited to share a new creative retreat with you that’s been bubbling in my cauldron this past few.

🦊 A half day, immersive created retreat inspired by The Spirit of Animals.

🐞 Nature guides can appear to us in many forms - plant, animal or tree…

🐌 They will make themselves known, or shown at a time when we are most in need of their message or medicine

🪴 For example, Nettle might appear at a tune when we are called to set firmer boundaries.

🐦‍⬛ A blackbird or crow (as I mentioned earlier this week) might appear at a time of transition. A time of endings when a cycle has reached its completion and it’s time to begin, again.

🌈 Some guides, come and go - they may only stay with us a short while, when we are most in need of their support or guidance. Whilst others may remain permanently etched on our wild skin.

🦴 Some may make themselves known by leaving an offering, be it paw print, feather or bone.

🦅 And some may be less subtle. Having flown into our lives screaming for our attention.

If any of the above rings true to you, or if you’d like to learn more about nature guides, I’m inviting you to get curious with me…

Introducing…

Wild Magic Creative Retreat | The Spirit of Animals 🕸️

Sunday 4th October | 10:00 to 14:00 | The Sussex Yurt 🏕️

I’ll be offering:

🌱 Wild Tea & Sunday brunch

🌒 A gentle opening circle & shamanic drumming & meditation journey

🦌 Guided journaling and storytelling exploring the magic & folklore of animal guides

🪶 A creative exploration inspired by your guide(s)

Early bird booking is now open on this intimate retreat - to find out more, fly on over to the link
below: https://www.elliethegreen.com/wildmagicretreats

30/07/2026

UNMASKING & AIR 🦅

Hello friends, I’m Ellie Green 🐞

And I’m ready to be truly seen.

Not Eleanor Green - the full name I adopted for some time during my teens to survive secondary school - or ‘the French girl’ title I was given by others when I returned from 4 years in French school. Not ‘the English girl’ that as French friends dubbed me.

Not ‘Miss Green’ the character I created in my 16 years as an Art teacher…the one who decided that ‘fake it til you make it’ was a solid strategy for one who was deeply insecure under the skin.

Not ‘Surrey Art School’ - the brand I created on arrival in Surrey a decade or so ago. Such a successful mask that people would stop me and say - hey! You’re Surrey Art School aren’t you? And I would nod and brim with pride within - my best mask yet!

No, at the core I’m very simply Ellie Green.

Delightfully flawed, deeply sensitive, quite feral.

I’m the Ellie that wrestled with body dismorphia and disordered eating for 30 odd years and now finally eats breakfast and no longer wants to be skinny, because she is learning to love the feeling of being in her body, of feeling strong.

I’m the Ellie who is a Botanical Artist and is still learning to prioritise her own practice over teaching others and getting her satisfaction there. If you scan my grid you’ll find few examples of my original work on here but that’s something I’m working on changing, for me, not for you.

I’m Ellie the Women’s Circle leader. And I’m ever so proud to hold that training in my heart. But I’m also just a woman, who runs circles because this too has helped me unmask and because the medicine of circle is steadily healing me too.

And I’m Ellie the Creative Guide. Because I no longer want to be the ‘sage on the stage’ teaching by preaching my philosophy to you. I’d rather be ‘the guide at your side’ these days. Empowering you on your creative path so the wins don’t land as mine, either. That any progress made is solely on YOU.

And finally, Ellie, the Shamanic apprentice and this learning underpins, informs and shapes pretty much everything I do. I’m a humble steward & student.

I’m Ellie & I’m unmasking.

Nice to re-meet you 🐦‍⬛

24/07/2026

MY REFLECTIONS ON BEING IN THE GOO 🐛🦋

And I guess on spiritual bypassing…

🧚 On how everyone seems to be so focused on ‘ascension’ these days, on love, light and fluttering by…

🪱 But seem to want to actively avoid slowing down, digging down into the mucky stuff beneath the surface.

🐦‍⬛ Nobody wants to be in the void - to sit with feelings of uncertainty, to stay sober and look at their patterns, feel into the depth of their own pain and the pain they cause others.

And I get it, it’s deeply uncomfortable stuff

🪽 But equally I’m so done with ‘fluff’

With toxic positivity, with passivity, with this idea that someone is going to ‘heal you’ if you find the right guru

💸 That your finances will suddenly turn around if you think more ‘abundantly’

A lot of the deepest spiritual work depends solely on you

On your ability to get comfortable with discomfort

On your trust in letting it alllll turn to MUSH and GOO

🌙 And then observing what’s left of you when you finally come back together after the descent…

Because truly,, deeply, at the core, the only one who can heal you, ‘save you’ or set you free, is YOU.

🦅 Not sure if I sound like a rambling wild woman now or if this resonates with any of you?

Hit me up my ‘goo’ crew 🐛🦋

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