Hannah hinchman biography

I’m going to let Hannah Hinchman describe the four types of nature journals according to her, and add in some of my thoughts and examples at the end:

“When I teach workshops on the illuminated journal, I explain what I call a “scale of journals”:

On one end is the Informational journal, the true naturalist’s field journal.

Hannah Hinchman is a freelance artist, writer, and calligrapher.

Hannah Hinchman is a freelance artist, writer, and calligrapher who has been keeping journals for more than 35 years.

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I'm going to let Hannah Hinchman describe the four types of nature journals according to her, and add in some of my thoughts and examples at the end.

Earlham College, Indiana · Portland School of Art, Maine ; Occupations: writer · illustrator.

It concentrates on the quantifiable and identifiable, gathering names, facts, and observations with an impartial thoroughness. It contains drawings, but they are meant to be explanatory. There is little room for the personal in this kind of journal, though I admire it for the valuable role it serves in adding to the body of knowledge.

On the other end of the scale is the Reflective journal.

It’s purely personal, mostly concerned with human-generated culture, investigations of the psyche, relationships, responses to art and writing, dreams, memories” a