About

My name is Grace and I am a queer, vegan witch and bone lover based in North East England.

I grew up on the edge of the countryside with a mother that adored the natural world and being out in it. This obviously encouraged me to be outside all the time, playing in the grass and dirt with the worms and bees, and turned me into someone who feels deeply connected to Mother Nature.

I have fond memories of family trips really delving into wildlife watching. One being a retreat where we were able to watch a family of badgers live in their natural wild eco-system from a wildlife spotting hut. I also have a specific memory of being involved with my mum’s work’s volunteering opportunity where we got to catch and record data of local rodents for the mammal society. Not only was this a core moment for me growing up to really adore nature, but also deeply care about the conservation and monitoring of it. I now help search for harvest mice and white-toothed shrews when working with owl pellets for this business. 

In my younger years, and even now, I channeled my passion for nature into art - this then led to me realising I had a fascination for bones. Aesthetically, I loved the shapes and curves: educationally, I found the inner workings of biology incredible. 

I went from simply drawing bones and skulls to collecting after I found a rabbit skull on a dog walk and felt an instant connection to this side of nature; the turning of the wheel, life turning into death and back again. This was only boldened by my mother who, not long after, brought me home a badger skull that she found on a dog walk. This badger skull is still one of the cornerstone pieces in my collection.

I’m quite a spiritual person and practice witchcraft in my spare time. This belief system bleeds into my business - I speak to the animals as I find their remains, apologising for how they met their end and thanking them for letting me find them.

When holding or moving animals, I try to read the energies I feel around them and use my own intuition to figure out if they want to stay, be moved, or come with me. Some animals speak very clearly, whereas some are very quiet. Some I feel no signs at all - suggesting to me that their lingering energy has dispersed back to the natural world to rest.

I’m so passionate about collecting what remains of animals after they die because I feel a real connection to nature this way. It feels like a very intimate insight into the world to be able to find and hold something that contains so many millions of years of evolution - a singular bone is an entire species’ DNA in your hand and it is such an honour to be able to interact with such incredible magic.

Unfortunately, of course, vulture culture has massively grown in popularity in recent years and I think some people have forgotten where bones come from. These are not simply decorations you can get on a whim - these were once living creatures that walked the earth, had instincts to hunt and mate and protect one another; they experienced emotions similar to ours and were able to feel pleasure and pain. The increase in demand for their bones has led to so much more cruelty across the world, to all kinds of animals, based purely on an aesthetic. 

I truly believe animals are sentient and deserve individual respect - free from unnecessary harm. For me, that includes the food industry, the pet industry, the fashion industry, and the pest control industry. These all have significantly damaging impacts on animal welfare, the environment, and even human welfare - all of which are things I am very passionate about improving. By being vegan, I am reducing my personal impact on these things as much as I can possibly practice.