Pond dipping/kick sampling at Shoni's pond last week with NATURponty Ephemera danica mayfly nymph, Baby bullhead fish, Velia Sauli Water cricket, Chaoborus sp. Glass worm 🧐

Diolch o 💖 NATURponty am p'nawn lush - syniadau a sgwrsiau hollol wych "Birds have twin towns just like us" 🐦 "Aderyn Melyn comes from an old calypso song" 💛 "Let's make our own books! " 📚 💡Can we run a collaborative Summer Zine Club please Artis Community Cymuned YMa

1/ I'm posting photographs over the next few days from the NATURponty project that culminated in an exhibition at Canolfan Calon Taf in the glass house earlier this year.

Another photograph from the NATURponty project that culminated in an exhibition at Canolfan Calon Taf in the glass house earlier this year. It was a great privilege to photograph members of the NATURponty Youth Forum. Artist and director, Catrin Doyle Model: Kai Easter

From the NATURponty project that culminated in an exhibition at Canolfan Calon Taf in the glass house earlier this year. It was a great privilege to photograph members of the NATURponty Youth Forum. Artist and director, Catrin Doyle. Model: Kai Easter

Can you guess where in the Pontypridd Area this is? From the NATURponty project. Mask produced by Catrin Doyle. Lead artist and director: Catrin Doyle Model: Griffin

1/This was an incredible location only a few minutes from Pontypridd town. This photograph is from the NATURponty project that culminated in an exhibition at Canolfan Calon Taf in the glass house earlier this year. It was a great privilege to photograph…

From the NATURponty project. Mask produced by Catrin Doyle. Lead artist and director: Catrin Doyle Models: Alice and Ewan

What creature do you think this resembles? This photograph is from the NATURponty project. Masks and costumes from the project were from the #BiodiversityCarnival, co-produced by Catrin Doyle and young emerging artist Lucie Loops. Model: Ewan

That time Alice blurred the lines between a hare and a human... This photograph is from the NATURponty project. The #BiodiversityCarnival masks and costumes were co-produced by Catrin Doyle and young emerging artist Lucie Loops. Model: Alice

Llanwonno forest, what a truely magical place. It was like something from Fangorn Forest. From the NATURponty project. #BiodiversityCarnival masks and costumes co-produced by Catrin Doyle and young emerging artist Lucie Loops Models: Rhi

Llanwonno forest, what a truely magical place. It was like something from Fangorn Forest. From the NATURponty project. #BiodiversityCarnival masks and costumes co-produced by Catrin Doyle and young emerging artist Lucie Loops Models: Rhi

An added fun part of the NATURponty project was location scouting around Pontypridd. Having grown up over the mountain in the Aber Valley, I thought I knew the area pretty well but there's so much more to explore than I realised. Model: Griffin

There's only a few more photographs that I'll be posting from the NATURponty #BiodiversityCarnival project. Here's Lucie Rose / Loops again wearing a crocheted mask co-produced by young emerging artist Lucie Loops and Catrin Doyle.

There's only a few more photographs that I'll be posting from the NATURponty #BiodiversityCarnival project. Here's Lucie Rose / Loops again wearing a crocheted mask co-produced by young emerging artist Lucie Loops and Catrin Doyle.

Model: Lucie Rose / Lucie Loops From the NATURponty project. The #BiodiversityCarnival masks and costumes were co-produced by young emerging artist Lucie Rose and Catrin Doyle. #Celf #WelshArtist #WelshArt #Pontypridd #PortraitCymru

Model and epic human, Anniben, persevered with gales, rain and bitter cold to make this image. Extra thanks to Catrin for holding the model steady in the wind. This is the last but one photograph that I'll be posting from the NATURponty project. Fabric designed by Catrin Doyle