Hello,
I'm Carolyn.
And this is my story...
How it all began.
I’m a writer, photographer, creative and lifelong observer of the natural world.
I sometimes describe myself as a cantadora, a keeper and teller of stories, because, despite a wonderfully varied career spanning publishing, photography, communications, sustainability, wellbeing and the arts, storytelling has always been at the heart of what I do.
And so has nature.
I spent a lot of my childhood in my Mother's native North Devon, where some of my earliest memories are of running wild on its golden beaches, bellyboarding in the Atlantic and developing a relationship with the ocean and landscape that has never really left me.
Nature became much more than somewhere beautiful to be. It became teacher, sanctuary, inspiration and, at times, somewhere to find my way home.
A life that came back to nature.
After university in Oxford, life took me in a rather different direction.
I spent many years working in London and within the worlds of publishing, media and communications, including working with international brands such as Sony PlayStation and publishing houses including Hearst and ELLE.
It was exciting, creative and fast-moving but eventually something deeper began calling me back west.
I missed the sea. I missed space, wildness, weather and horizons. Most of all, I missed the feeling of being connected to something larger than the busy human world.
So I returned to the landscapes of my childhood and created a different kind of life, first returning to Devon and eventually making my home close to the Atlantic in North Cornwall.
That return to nature changed not only where I lived, but the direction of my work.
Following the threads
Over the years I have followed my curiosity into many different places. I have worked professionally as a writer, editor, photographer and communications consultant. I have studied and worked within holistic health, nutrition, naturopathy, fitness and wellbeing. For more than twenty years I have also explored biodynamic growing and the relationship between healthy soil, healthy food, healthy people and a healthy planet.
Increasingly, I've realised that these aren't separate interests at all but rather, different threads of the same story. How do we live well as part of the natural world rather than somehow apart from it? It is a question that continues to fascinate me.
I’m interested in the meeting place between nature and science, ancient and Indigenous wisdom, creativity, health, sustainability, philosophy and the simple knowledge we acquire through observing the living world around us.
I believe enormously in curiosity. In noticing. In wandering a little. In watching the light change across the sea, putting your hands into living soil, listening to the wind in the trees, talking to fascinating people and remaining open to the possibility of being surprised.
Perhaps, more than anything, I believe in living in wonderment.
Where my work is taking me now
Today, all those seemingly disparate threads come together through two interconnected creative worlds: MŌHALU and SEAGERWorld.
MŌHALU is the nature-led side of my work, exploring how people, organisations and communities can flourish by learning from the living world. It brings together sustainability, nature-led communications, wellbeing, storytelling and positive impact.
At its heart is one simple idea: Nature isn't separate from business. Nature can be our model for better business.
SEAGERWorld is my creative home a place for writing, photography, magazines, books, conversations and art. It gives me the freedom to follow my curiosity wherever it wanders: into people and places, oceans and landscapes, horses and dogs, creativity and culture, natural health, philosophy, forgotten wisdom and the extraordinary stories hiding within apparently ordinary lives.
Photography remains an enormous part of that world. I've spent much of my life trying to capture those fleeting moments when light transforms something familiar into something extraordinary. My camera encourages me to stop, look and notice and perhaps that is what all my work is really about.
The art of wonderment.
These days you'll still find me happiest somewhere near the Atlantic, walking, swimming, writing, photographing, gardening, exploring or simply standing still long enough to notice what is happening around me.
I'm still learning. Still questioning. Still changing direction occasionally. Still becoming completely distracted by beautiful light. And I hope I always will. Because I don't believe we ever become too old, too busy or too sensible to be astonished by this extraordinary world we inhabit.
My work is an invitation to notice more, create more, connect more deeply and practise the fine art of living in wonderment.