Laura Harvey

It’s been just over a month since I left Brazil. The reflections come in long journaling sessions, a buzz from the Whatsapp groups I’m...

I was settling into painting an environmental mural in the warehouse on the botanical gardens of Floripa when the percussive introduction of

In taking a gap year, I made the decision to learn by looking up. For a nerd like me, admitting that you can’t learn everything with your no

Whilst drawing out in the landscape, an art teacher once told me that “you must draw faster, because every time you look up, what you see wi

Barely 24 hours in Brazil, the country I endeavour to embrace the culture of, lost a large part of it. The National Museum of Brazil caught

The dappled shade protects my pale shoulders from the sun and the grass is damp under my bare legs. The taste of Thai food is new and there’

Approaching the cultural exchange I will participate in over the next year, I am beginning to realise quite how British I am. My parents are